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  • Next mystery disease?

    From Don Y@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 25 18:51:30 2025
    <https://time.com/7261328/mystery-illness-congo-outbreak-disease/>

    (and others)

    Gotta be hell living in a place where this sort of thing isn't
    unexpected...

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  • From Don Y@21:1/5 to Don Y on Tue Feb 25 19:09:14 2025
    On 2/25/2025 6:51 PM, Don Y wrote:
    <https://time.com/7261328/mystery-illness-congo-outbreak-disease/>

    (and others)

    Gotta be hell living in a place where this sort of thing isn't
    unexpected...

    And, is this still another?

    <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y83ejz7eeo>

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  • From Bill Sloman@21:1/5 to Don Y on Wed Feb 26 18:47:29 2025
    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/>

    (and others)

    Gotta be hell living in a place where this sort of thing isn't
    unexpected...

    And, is this still another?

    <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.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Bill Sloman@21:1/5 to John R Walliker on Thu Feb 27 14:38:30 2025
    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/>

    (and others)

    Gotta be hell living in a place where this sort of thing isn't
    unexpected...

    And, is this still another?

    <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

    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.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Martin Brown@21:1/5 to Bill Sloman on Thu Feb 27 13:38:55 2025
    On 27/02/2025 03:38, Bill Sloman wrote:
    On 27/02/2025 1:08 am, John R Walliker wrote:

    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.

    A part of the problem during WWI was that anyone infected but still able
    to handle a rifle was kept on the front line and only the most seriously
    ill were sent back for medical treatment. This selected for the most
    virulent strain with the worst symptoms as the soldiers travelling back
    on trains infected many more other contacts as a direct result.

    Neither side wanted to admit there was a problem.


    --
    Martin Brown

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