The story is actually kinda funny. The last novel coronavirus got the name Middle East Respiratory Syndrome because it first popped up in the Gulf, but the Saudis made a stink about the name and the WHO promised to do better next time.https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1374150724729323523 …
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The Spanish Flu was first cited at a military base in Kentucky but we won't get into the details as to why it isn't known as The American Flu
The deadlier second wave of H1N1 started in Europe and combatant countries wrote up their flu deaths as war deaths so they wouldn't have to admit they were losing more men to disease. Spain was non-combatant.
