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Mystery Disease Outbreak in Egyptian Village Alarms Health Authorities: Investigation Underway - BNN Breaking (bnn.network)

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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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[-] neko@fishfry.cheese.beer 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue

[-] CanadaPlus 2 points 1 year ago

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.