An incommunicable disease: the difficulties in naming the latest viral outbreak

TORONTO — The “Chinese Flu.” The “Wuhan virus.” The “Wuhan coronavirus.” These are some of the names major media outlets have applied to a new illness originating in Wuhan, China whose official name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue — “2019-nCoV.” Mainstream media more often refer to it as a “novel coronavirus” or “new coronavirus,” […]