How racist is that? Next they’ll be calling it the Spanish Flu.
Or, heaven forbid, the China Virus (try googling that, you won’t find it).
Newly discovered viruses suggest ‘German measles’ jumped from animals to humans – The virus that causes rubella, or German measles, finally has company. Scientists had never identified close relatives of the virus, leaving it as the only member of its genus, Rubivirus. But with a report in this week’s issue of Nature, rubella has gained a family. One of its two newfound relatives infects bats in Uganda; the other killed animals from three different species in a German zoo and was found in wild mice living nearby as well.
“Now we know that every disease in the letters of the MMR vaccine has a zoonotic origin.”
