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Spanish Flu Hong Kong Flu West Nile Virus German Measles Guinea Worm Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Lyme Disease (named after Lyme, Connecticut) Ross River
by awerawerawrjhui 6y ago
Spanish Flu
Hong Kong Flu
West Nile Virus
German Measles
Guinea Worm
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Lyme Disease (named after Lyme, Connecticut)
Ross River Fever
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever (named after Omsk, Russia)
Ebola (named after the Ebola River)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Zika (named after the Zika Forest, Uganda)
Japanese Encephalitis
Marburg Virus Disease (named after Marburg, Germany)
- oblio 6y agoYou will notice that most of those names don't come from people living in that place and frequently those diseases were actively named to denigrate the locals. Or they're not named in recent times, but instead in times when using slurs was a leisure activity. Plus the egregious case of the "Spanish" flu that might have originated in the US but Spain was unlucky to be talking openly about it.