[fintstone]

Originally Posted by fintstone

Yep. People have almost never referred to disease outbreaks by geographic places (and the people in all the places these were named after were beat down by white supremist because they were):
Guinea Worm
West Nile Virus
German Measles
Ross River Fever
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Marburg Virus Disease
Lassa Fever
La Crosse Encephalitis
St. Louis Encephalitis
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Lyme Disease
Spanish Flu
Zika
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Jaipur Foot
Argentine hemorrhagic fever
Valley Fever
Norovirus
Lassa Fever

OMG! I listed Lassa Fever twice. Please forgive me. More of that white supremist conspiracy!