When it comes to deadly viruses, what’s in a name?

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – For a pathogen with such a short history, the mysterious new virus killing people in the Middle East and Europe has already had an amazing array of names. It first surfaced last year as "human betacoronavirus 2c EMC", but the suffixes "2c England-Qatar, "2C Jordan-N3", "England 1" have also appeared and many scientists have resorted to "novel coronavirus" – new crown-shaped virus – instead. …