Mysterious Disease X Kills Scores In Democratic Republic Of The Congo (www.forbes.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 06:25
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Lojcs@lemm.ee on 09 Dec 07:31 next collapse

No please don’t let it be called disease X please no

Warl0k3@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 08:25 next collapse

Idk we already knew Xitter was a plague on society…

Tobberone@lemm.ee on 09 Dec 11:01 collapse

I can’t come in today, I got a bad case of X… I don’t know, seems like a reason to self isolate already.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 12:15 collapse

I know who patient zero is!

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ec0cd8e3-ba14-4633-bff9-61d40e88325f.png">

obinice@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 10:11 next collapse

Instead of some crappy website like Forbes, why not get all the information directly from the source.

www.who.int/emergencies/…/2024-DON546

The summary at the top is the only part that needs reading, though the rest is informative too.

Basically, they don’t know what it is yet, though given the malnourished, somewhat cut off, poor region with spotty healthcare at best, this could be one or multiple illnesses that we already know about, which have all struck a weak population at a bad time.

So, no need to panic just yet. They’re sending various test samples off to be checked out, but the road out of the region takes 48 hours to drive due to rainy season issues, so it’s a bit slow going.

All in all, this is likely no big deal, but certainly worth keeping an eye on just to be safe. These sorts of things happen all the time, basically, but before COVID nobody really cared.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 12:14 collapse

Instead of some crappy website like Forbes, why not get all the information directly from the source.

Because rule 1 in the sidebar says news articles only and press releases are not news articles. OP did the right thing in this community.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 09 Dec 13:31 next collapse

Bird(site) flu

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 09 Dec 14:46 next collapse

By the nomenclature I can tell this was developed by Elon Musk

MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip on 10 Dec 19:46 collapse

Politicians will blame the X-Men for this.