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This story is crazy.
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So a mysterious illness recently referred to as disease X has claimed
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the lives of dozens in the Southwester region of the Democratic Republic
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of Congo. Over the course of two weeks,
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between 67 and 143 people have died with the majority of victims
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being young Children. Under five years old.
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The illness has been described as presenting flu like symptoms,
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including fever, headache,
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runny, nose, breathing difficulties and anemia.
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So I would say it has very similar symptoms to COVID-19.
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And the World Health Organization has sent a rapid response team to
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investigate the outbreak. But as of now,
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the exact cause of the disease remains unknown.
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The organization has verified at least 31 deaths attributed to the illness
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So the figures by local authorities suggest a more severe toll
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as the situation continues to develop health experts and authorities are working
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urgently to identify the pathogen responsible and contain its spread.
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And honestly, I hope that we don't have another COVID-19 lockdown
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situation. Is this crazy because yeah,
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like it's only starting out.
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It's not that like like you know,
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worldwide, the people know about it,
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and it's kind of how COVID.
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something's happening in China.
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And then the way these things spread,
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so this is like the death to is pretty high.
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it's just like, it's kind of hard to pinpoint it with
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COVID. Right. The COVID is just a cold.
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I'm getting paranoid right now.
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we'll see what happens,
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but we're hoping for the best.
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