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“What’s in a name?” That was the question computer virus experts were asking each other at a panel discussion of virus naming conventions at Virus Bulletin 2003 (VB2003), an annual gathering of the ...

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says a group of global experts has agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants. The report said that the experts agreed to name the clades using roman numerals ...

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St. Louis was once the site of an epidemic that inspired the name of a rare mosquito-borne virus across the Midwest.