vlad wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:05 pm
I had some idiot defending this, saying
all the flus were named after their place of origin.
Yea, places like SARS, or Swine, or Bird, and I would liked to have seen H1N1.
Just sayin’....
West Nile Virus:
Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discoveredin 1937.
Guinea Worm:
Named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever:
Named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.
Lyme Disease:
Named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.
Ross River Fever:
Named after a mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross River of Queensland, Australia by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred in 1928.
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever:
Named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever:
Named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS):
Also known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula.
Valley Fever:
Valley Fever earned its nickname from a 1930s outbreak San Joaquin Valley of California, though its first case came from Argentina.
Marburg Virus Disease:
Named after Marburg, Germany in 1967.
Norovirus:
Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an outbreak in 1968.
Zika Fever:
First discovered in 1947 and named after the Zika Forest in Uganda.
Japanese Encephalitis:
Named after its first case in Japan in 1871.
German Measles:
Named after the German doctors who first described it in the 18th century. The disease is also sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”
Spanish Flu:
While the true origins of the Spanish Flu remain unknown, the disease earned its name after Spain began to report deaths from the flu in its newspapers.
Lassa Fever:
Named after the being found in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
Legionnaire’s Disease:
Named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.