Since that doesn't apply to me, I'll just say this:
The MERS virus is shorthand for "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome." The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola river, in the Congo. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is named after its point of origin, the Rocky Mountains of the American West.
To clarify for the politically warped: This current virus first appeared in an open air "wet market", in the city of Wuhan, in China. Naming it the Wuhan virus, or the "Chinese" virus, is not a term of accusation. It is a term associated with its point of origin.
It is a geographic locator, not a "racist" usage. I do wish the uneducated would learn to use the dictionary, before misusing words like "racist." It, like other words bandied about by the Left, has become an all-purpose slur, and practically meaningless in its universal application.
