Research has found that when thoughts of disease are made salient:

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When thoughts of disease are made salient, people tend to become particularly negative and prejudiced toward ethnically different others. This phenomenon is called xenophobic reactions to disease outbreaks. It is because people tend to link diseases with specific ethnic groups, and the fear of contracting a disease leads to avoidance and discrimination toward those groups.

Research Has Found That When Thoughts of Disease Are Made