Unknown disease infects 200 people in Egypt
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It's an outbreak of dengue fever with no deaths reported.
Ugh, dengue fever is awful. The timeline of symptoms is neat unless you’re going through them.
Oh shit, here we go again.
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Reads like the beginning of a game of Plague, Inc.
Broken bones? How is that a symptom?!?
I suspect it's a translation issue. @noisefree linked in another, less sensational article that says this is dengue fever. And the old name for dengue fever was "break-bone fever", because of the massive amount of bone and joint pain it caused.
Oh thank you. That is much less terrifying.
I think it's probably "bone pain" scrambled in translation, since it's a dengue fever outbreak.
I hope it’s just a catch all data kind of thing. Like anything anyone has wrong with them gets lumped in to be filtered later. Idk. I’m guessing here.
I think I'd be too. High fevers are one thing, but I don't want my bones broken on top of that.
ah hell
Only if I can have another stimmy check.