History also demonstrates naming diseases by country is a very inaccurate way to name a disease.
Spanish flu didn't start in Spain. There was a war on, and the countries that already had raging infections running through the trenches had suppressed news of those infections to the public as part of regular propaganda operations. Spain was a neutral party to WWI and so lacked the propaganda-driven media clampdown, and is therefore the first nation in the European world to have reported the disease. But the name has stuck, and to this day people assume Spainsh flu originated in Spain.
Spanish flu didn't start in Spain. There was a war on, and the countries that already had raging infections running through the trenches had suppressed news of those infections to the public as part of regular propaganda operations. Spain was a neutral party to WWI and so lacked the propaganda-driven media clampdown, and is therefore the first nation in the European world to have reported the disease. But the name has stuck, and to this day people assume Spainsh flu originated in Spain.