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Health Ministry Takes Action: Investigating the Strange Disease Outbreak In a concerning turn of events, over 200 people in the Egyptian village of Al-aleikat, located in the Qena governorate, have been infected with a mysterious disease, causing alarm among the residents.

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[–] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

The lack of people actually reading the article and saying it's like a new plague, and you pop along, you who actually read the article and you say it's just dengue fever.

Needless to say I didn't read the article and been just enjoyin' the tin foil hat (or face mask) conversation going on in the comments.

[–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yes that's what the tests have found.

There are also big dengue outbreaks in Laos and Bangladesh.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are broken bones common with Dengue fever?

[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Well it's also known as "breakbone fever". Seems likely this is the cause.

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh good. Millennials are due for another world calamity. We've had one plague. Why not a second plague?

[–] rvd2k4@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Already have 5 cases of toilet paper plus the other thing purchases from the last pandemic. UVC sanitation stations, diy hand sanitizer kit, and 3D printed mask face masks and shields.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is the worst second breakfast meme I've come across yet... And, sadly, the most relatable.

[–] Smoogy@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes cuz millenials are singled out and targetted with all world events revolving around and affecting only them.

[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Millennials are also like 40 now, so COVID equally impacted like 4 generations. It's not like calamity is new to anyone Gen X and above either.

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oh come on there will be another pandemic? Yikes

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Broken and painful bones does not sound like a fun cluster of symptoms. COVID sucked but I want to avoid this disease at all costs.

[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yes Dengue fever is bad.

I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning, I break my legs, and every afternoon, I break my arms. At night, I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep.

[–] neko@fishfry.cheese.beer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Randomly broken bones sounds like it's pollution linked. It looks like there's a lot of aluminum production there, so maybe heavy metals?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does aluminum production produce a lot of heavy metal byproducts? It's a lithophile (it tends to congregate with crust-y rocks and oxygen rather than stuff that ends up in the core or in sulphide deposits) so I'm guessing not.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looking at a table of Goldshmidt classifications, chromium and vanadium should too. None of those are usually called heavy metals, though.