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Dengue: A virus by any other name – why scientists are renaming viruses
Viruses have traditionally been named after the places or animals they have been first discovered in. Now scientists are trying to bring order to the chaos of virus naming. In the final decades of the 16th Century, doctors began reporting outbreaks of a …