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Re:The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-busine... by awerawerawrjhui on Saturday October 31, 2020 @08:29AM (#24950864)
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)

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Re:The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-busine... by oblio on Saturday October 31, 2020 @09:00AM (#24951077)
You 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.

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