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GREAT!Cripes. There are literally thousands of pathogens named for the places they were first discovered.
Marburg virus
Spanish flu
German measles
Ebola (it's a rive in western Africa, unless my memory is fading)
St Louis encephalitis
Ross River virus.
WNV
And I'm only getting warmed up.
Cuddle up to these:
Lyme disease named after Lyme, Connecticut. (Not their fault it was first discovered here).
Mad Cow disease (offensive to the bovine family)
Avian flu (it's the birds' fault)
Zika virus, named for a forest in Uganda (blame that on the trees)
West Nile ( Damn Egyptians)