| Num | Name | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Banna Virus | long named after the Chinese prefecture within Yunnan province where the virus was first isolated. |
| 2 | Barmah Forest Virus | named after the Australian forest where it was first isolated. |
| 3 | Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever | named after the country with the first outbreak. |
| 4 | Bunyamwera Virus | named after the Uganda town where it was first isolated. |
| 5 | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa. |
| 6 | German Measles (aka Rubella) | named after the German doctors who first described it in the 18th century. |
| 7 | Guinea Worm | named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s. |
| 8 | Hantavirus | named after the Hantan River in South Korea where the disease was first discovered. |
| 9 | Japanese Encephalitis | named after its first case in Japan in 1871. |
| 10 | Kunjin Virus | named after the Australian aboriginal clan that first contracted the disease. |
| 11 | Lagos Bat Virus | a Lyssavirus of southern and central Africa that causes a rabies-like illness in mammals. |
| 12 | Lassa Fever | named after the being found in Lassa Nigeria in 1969. |
| 13 | Legionnaires' Disease | named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. |
| 14 | Lyme Disease | named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme Connecticut in the 1970s. |
| 15 | Marburg Virus | named after Marburg Germany in 1967. |
| 16 |
MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) aka “camel flu” | MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and all case are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula. |
| 17 | Mokola Virus | named after the Nigrerian forest where the disease was first isolated. |
| 18 | New York Orthohantavirus | named after New York City, where a mouse was first discovered to carry the disease. |
| 19 | Norovirus | named after Norwalk Ohio after an outbreak in 1968. |
| 20 | Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever | named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia. |
| 21 | Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized in 1896 in Idaho. |
| 22 | Ross River Virus | named after the Ross River in Queensland, Australia. |
| 23 | Spanish Flu | While the true origins of the Spanish Flu remain unknown, the disease earned its name after Spain began to report deaths from the flu in its newspapers. |
| 24 | St. Louis Encephalitis | named after the American city where the first brakeout occurred. |
| 25 | Valley Fever | earned its nickname from a 1930s outbreak San Joaquin Valley of California though its first case came from Argentina. |
| 26 | West Nile Virus | named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937. |
| 27 | Zika Fever | first discovered in 1947 and named after the Zika Forest in Uganda. |