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Conlangery 147: Naming a disease

Conlangery Podcast

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The Origins of Coronaviruses

The word coronavirus, I think often gets borrowed again because viruses were relatively recently discovered. The word virus comes from a Latin word for poison or venom. One of the earliest people to identify viruses at a pathogen actually thought they were liquid.

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