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If Saying ‘Wuhan Coronavirus’ Is Racist…
…Then what do you say about these diseases:
- California Serogroup Viruses / California Encephalitis
- Colorado Tick Fever
- Coxsackievirus (for the NY town)
- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
- Ebola virus (named for the Ebola River)
- Hantavirus (named for the Hantan River)
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Junin Virus (named for the Argentine city)
- Kyasanur Forest Virus
- Lassa Fever (named for a village in Nigeria)
- Lyme Disease (named for Lyme, CT)
- Machupo Virus (named for the Machupo River)
- Marburg Virus (named for a German town)
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS – this is also a coronavirus)
- Murray Valley Encephalitis (area in Australia)
- Nipah Virus (area in Malaysia)
- Norwalk Virus, aka norovirus (named for Norwalk, OH)
- Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever (named for a Russian city)
- Powassan Encephalitis (named for an Ontario city)
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Ross River Virus (river in Australia)
- Semliki Forest Virus (in Uganda)
- St. Louis Encephalitis
- Tularemia (named for Tulare County, CA)
- Venezuela Equine Encephalitis
- West Nile Virus (de Nile is a river in Egypt)
- Zika virus (named for the Zika Forest)
This is just the pathogens off the Pathogen Safety Data Sheets. This is so intensely stupid it leaves me staring in disbelief. Is this OrangeManBad or Chinese cash at work, or are they all just huffing paint?
