Comments on: The “Swine Flu” does not have a name? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:53:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Sean https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548276 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:53:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548276 Keep track of the latest swine flu vaccine developments as and when they happen at Swine Flu Britain

]]> By: abb3w https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548275 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:30:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548275 Why don’t we name it “Wilbur”?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548274 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:26:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548274 Revere: Ha! I didn’t say it was going to be easy!!!

Lorax, I was trying to remember that exact case to use as an example. The switch from Four Corners to Navaho had, as I recall, a twist as well… like the person who came up with that idea was Hopi (I don’t recall exactly).

]]> By: revere https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548273 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:09:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548273 LOL. You lazy anthropologists/archaeologists! You have six or seven names for a category of artifact? What’s up with that? How about a formal naming system. Is that so hard?

]]> By: Lorax https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548272 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/12/the-swine-flu-does-not-have-a/#comment-548272 Actually this seems to be an ongoing occurrence. The Four Corner’s virus (because it was first identified in the fours corners region of the US) had to be renamed because the 6 people in the area raised a stink. So it was renamed Navaho Flu, which of course wasn’t a pleasant association for the Navaho people. Then, I believe, it was named after a river that runs through that area and that was banned to. So the community gave up and named it Sin Nombre virus (the nameless virus). Probably the next round of disagreements will focus on the language a virus is not named in.

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