{"id":122964,"date":"2021-05-24T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/why-scientists-should-not-name-diseases-based-on-location"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:24:05","slug":"why-scientists-should-not-name-diseases-based-on-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/why-scientists-should-not-name-diseases-based-on-location","title":{"rendered":"Why Scientists Should Not Name Diseases Based On Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-scientists-should-not-name-diseases-based-on-location.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naming diseases after geographic locations can negatively impact entire communities and cultures, and is often misleading. WHO\u2019s 2015 guidelines favor generic, symptom-based nomenclature that reduces misconceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naming diseases after geographic locations can negatively impact entire communities and cultures, and is often misleading. WHO\u2019s 2015 guidelines favor generic, symptom-based nomenclature that reduces misconceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}