₦airaland Forum

So Wuhan virus is given a befitting and sexy name - COVID-19. Same was with SARS.

But should it have been from Africa, we would have had it being called a name akin to the originating place just like Ebola (a river in Congo), Lassa fever (Lassa, a town in Borno). According to CDC website, the disease (Lassa) was named "after a town in Nigeria where it first occurred" (and nobody protested, am surprised though)

There is psychological consequence to naming a bad event with one's place, it negatively affects cultural worth. Albeit, this doesn't applies to Africa.

I hope they change this, I suggest (after this virus is over), Africans should protest this madness. Let them give Ebola another name, so also Lassa fever. Very cruel. I miss Mugabe.

If Congolese people are comfortable with such affront, that's them; we are Nigerians, we should reject such. I hope someone repost this and tag WHO on twitter. Either it's Wuhan Virus or no more Lassa fever or Ebola whatever, let's rise and defend our cultural heritage.

I hope this gets to front-page for greater discuss or probably after the pandemic is over.

No b lie...

I feel your pain, brother

Well said.

But Covid is a.k.a Wuhan virus.

By Trump, it's called the "Chinese Virus"

CoronaVirusRelo:
Well said.

But Covid is a.k.a Wuhan virus.

By Trump, it's called the "Chinese Virus"

Lol, the guy is always blunt to fact, what is good for the goose is good for the gander