Fact Checks/Health & medicine/ReviewThe claim“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.RatingFalseReviewed by PolitiFact ↗Original fact check ↗Search related fact checks →Use this record in your application ↗Report a correction ↗