Re: Next mystery disease?

On 26/02/2025 07:47, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 26/02/2025 1:09 pm, Don Y wrote:

On 2/25/2025 6:51 PM, Don Y wrote:

<https://time.com/7261328/mystery-illness-congo-outbreak-disease/>
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(and others)
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Gotta be hell living in a place where this sort of thing isn't
unexpected...

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And, is this still another?
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<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y83ejz7eeo>

 New mystery diseases show up from time to time. Spanish Flu and Covid-19 killed enough people to get a lot of attention.
 There are people out there looking for them, but news reporters aren't all that good at the job, and shouldn't be taken all that seriously.
 Medically trained people do better, but they do include the usual proportion of attention-seeking show-boats, not to mention a number of people who don't want to rock the boat by starting a panic, even when panic is the correct reaction.

Spanish 'flu of course did not originate in Spain.  The source was most
likely Haskell County, Kansas in the USA.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC340389
John