GEOGRAPHICALLY NAMED VIRUSES
Ebola isn’t the only disease that’s been named after the region where it was discovered.
| Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever (a.k.a. Black Typhus, a.k.a. Machupo Virus) | An infectious disease caused by the Machupo virus that occurs in Bolivia and is transmitted through rodent droppings. |
| Coxsackievirus | Discovered in 1948 in Coxsackie, a town in New York, Coxsackie symptoms and signs include sore throat, rash, and blisters. |
| Hendra Virus | In 1944, Hendra virus was discovered following an outbreak of illness in horses in a large racing stable in the suburb of Hendra in Brisbane, Australia. |
| Marburg Virus | A hemorrhagic fever virus (similar to Ebola) discovered during small epidemics in the German cities Marburg and Frankfurt as well as in Yugoslav’s capital, Belgrade, in 1967. |
| MERS‑CoV | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus was first reported in 2012 after genome sequencing of a virus isolated from sputum samples in patients in twenty‑two countries who had fallen in an outbreak of a new flu. However, all cases can be traced back to Saudi Arabia. |
| Ross River Virus | A virus named after a river in northern Queensland in Australia in 1937. It is an infection that causes major weakness in the body. |
| West Nile Virus | A virus transmitted by mosquitoes; most people infected may only experience fever and mild headache but others may develop a life‑threatening illness that includes inflammation of the brain. It was first identified in the West Nile region of Uganda in 1937. |
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There are currently five known strains of the Ebola virus: Taï Forest, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Zaire, and Reston. All, with the exception of Reston, have been identified in humans.
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