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Originally Posted by Sue Doe-Nym
That’s absurd. We have had SARS, MERS, Hong Kong flu, West Nile virus, and many others. I guess Legionaires Disease was also discriminatory. If the virus originated in China, what would you prefer to call it?
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This is not to be snarky, but a serious question.
Didn’t the 2009 H1N1 pandemic originate in and was first identified in the United States, before it spread to rest of world?
My recollection is that thousands died in the US and across the world, but I don’t recall a big push by others to rename it the American flu.