Re: Next mystery disease?

On 27/02/2025 1:08 am, John R Walliker wrote:

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>

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New mystery diseases show up from time to time. Spanish Flu and Covid-19 killed enough people to get a lot of attention.
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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.
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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

Spain was neutral in WW1. Combatant countries didn't want to admit that some of their troops were out of action because they had been struck by an epidemic.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney