Should New WHO Disease Naming Guidelines Also Be Applied To Malware? | Fortinet Blog

In 2009, Egypt slaughtered all 300,000 pigs in the country in response to the worldwide pandemic of so-called “swine flu”, or H1-N1. Some estimates put US pork industry losses at millions of dollars per week as major world markets stopped importing American pork. Yet while H1-N1 originally began in pigs, the pandemic was one of human-to-human transmission. Some pigs were infected by people, but most experts agreed that pork was safe to eat, despite popular concerns stemming from the disease’s nickname and early media coverage.



Should New WHO Disease Naming Guidelines Also Be Applied To Malware? | Fortinet Blog