World Health Organization has recommended that the names of new human diseases should avoid including geographic locations , asking to refer to the virus as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 instead of `` Wuhan coronavirus '' .
Because of this connection , the virus is sometimes referred to informally , among other nicknames , as the `` Wuhan coronavirus '' , though the World Health Organization has recommended since 2015 that the names of new human diseases should avoid including geographic locations.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2