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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/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 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk we already knew Xitter was a plague on society...

[–] Tobberone@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

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 6 points 2 weeks ago

I know who patient zero is!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Politicians will blame the X-Men for this.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 2 weeks ago

Bird(site) flu