The term CCD came about during a telephone conference of the CCD working  
group, for all of the reasons cited by Joe:
 
Source:
http://maarec.psu.edu/pressReleases/FallDwindleUpdate0107.pdf

Best  Wishes,
Joe

As I remember, I brought up the question, since the cases that I saw in Fl  
were clearly not a dwindle, and the word disease implies knowledge of what  it 
is - which we clearly did not know.  The first reports from  investigations of 
FL and PA bees used some of the older terms - disappearing,  dwindle, etc.
 
The group as a whole discussed naming,.  It was not any one person who  named 
this.  We discussed whether dwindle was an adequate description,  concluded 
that Collapse was a better term.  Disorder was offered as a term  that did not 
pre-suppose a cause (it may, may not be a disease, etc.).   There was a 
comment made that the term disappearing disease had a legacy of  the problem 
disappearing before it could be solved.
 
We've all seen old papers that describe disappearing disease - but it is  
always prudent to go find those papers and read them.  
 
A few months ago, I was re-visiting some of those early reports of  
Disappearing Disease, Dwindle, etc.
 
My 1940's Hive and the Honey Bee describes Disappearing Disease, not as  bees 
disappearing, but as the disease that disappears!  So, just because  the 
title of a paper says Disappearing Disease doesn't mean that it was defined  as 
bees disappearing.  I've seen the term used both ways in some of the old  papers.
 
Jerry



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