- MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)
- Ebola (named for the river in Africa where the disease was first recognized in 1976)
- Hendra (named after the Brisbane suburb where it first occurred)
- West Nile virus (self explanatory, hey?)
- Zika (named after the Zika Forest in Uganda)
- Rift Valley fever (first identified in 1931 on a farm in the Rift Valley in Kenya)
- Ross River Fever (named after a flu outbreak in the Ross River, New South Wales, Australia
- Lyme Disease (formally called that after a large outbreak in Lyme, CT)
- Spanish flu (they didn't quite get this one right... it was supposedly first reported in a Spanish newspaper... close enough?)
- German Measles (come on, man!)
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (it never ends...)
