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At least 5 dead in Burundi from a mystery illness: Africa CDC

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At least 5 dead in Burundi from a mystery illness: Africa CDC
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At least 5 dead in Burundi from a mystery illness: Africa CDC
Lab tests are negative for more than 200 pathogens, but testing continues.
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reduction-oxidation Apr 17, 2026 +2381
>Testing showed that samples from patients tested negative for more than 200 pathogens, said Yap Boum, PhD, MPH, deputy head of the Africa CDC Mpox Response. This includes Ebola and Marburg virus diseases, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
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tochirov Apr 17, 2026 +3107
well isn't this a great time to start another pandemic
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rangkilrog Apr 17, 2026 +2801
In an unexpected twist trump saves world from second global pandemic by making jet fuel so expensive no one is able to travel anywhere.
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queen-adreena Apr 17, 2026 +969
28 Flight Cancellations Later
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chernadraw Apr 18, 2026 +444
World War ZZZ
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rujopt Apr 18, 2026 +366
Don of the Dead
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purecilantro Apr 18, 2026 +328
President Evil
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punkalunka Apr 18, 2026 +108
Project Donboid
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coloredinlight Apr 18, 2026 +71
Night of the Living Prez
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kasakka1 Apr 18, 2026 +43
Blubber 2: The Presidential Seat
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Grapesodas Apr 18, 2026 +13
This is the one 👍🏻
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CarrotLevel99 Apr 18, 2026 +26
I ran from Zombies
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kamshaft11975 Apr 18, 2026 +22
Overnight of the Living Dead
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coutjak Apr 18, 2026 +21
Night of the Living Ted Cruz
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Captain_Redbeard Apr 18, 2026 +26
28 Truths Later
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getrekt03 Apr 18, 2026 +3
Shaun of the Hormuz
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Bandin03 Apr 18, 2026 +10
This one deserves awards too but f*** spending money on this damn site. Here you go. 🏅
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Kakkoister Apr 18, 2026 +10
ZZZ... so it was actually China this time too!
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goingfullretard-orig Apr 18, 2026 +13
The formal innovation is Stationary Zombies
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l33tleteapot Apr 18, 2026 +43
"I saved the world from another pandemic bigly, it was yuge."
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Ok-Ocelot-3454 Apr 18, 2026 +22
i mean if it works broken clock twice a day or something like that
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Paputek101 Apr 18, 2026 +49
Ya'll are playing checkers while he's playing 4d chess >!/s (obviously I am kidding I do not support this man but with his supporters' mental gymnastics, I'm sure that they'll say the same thing)!<
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National-Two2417 Apr 18, 2026 +3
I thought he saved the world be cutting expenses like testing? Can't have cases if you ain't testing.
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simonbleu Apr 18, 2026 +40
Pandemics are often low-mortality + highly contagious otherwise it tends to fail at some point, and afaik all those diseases are damn deadly; I would not worry about a pandemic with a virus like that unless you got a "porter" (whatever the word is, carry the thing, doesnt suffers from it) vector that is overwhelmingly spread out like mosquitoes
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AmaimonCH Apr 18, 2026 +23
Depends on the incubation period, if it's like a week or two, the virus can as lethal as it wants.
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overkill Apr 18, 2026 +33
Carrier. An asymptomatic carrier. Porter was damned close.
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gurnard Apr 18, 2026 +4
Or a Typhoid Mary if you're feeling sassy
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rigterw Apr 18, 2026 +5
To add to this, COVID was also quite effective because it started in a country with good infrastructure. In Africa people and thus viruses travel way less
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Difficult-Square-689 Apr 18, 2026 +7
Yes, start in a high population country, only crank up the symptoms after you've reached every country.
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ATaxiNumber1729 Apr 18, 2026 +3
Thank you, I wanted to make this point
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Late_Winner6859 Apr 17, 2026 +66
Would help with the oil prices though
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uttyrc Apr 17, 2026 +50
Do I need to stockpile toilet paper?
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negativeyoda Apr 17, 2026 +53
I got a bidet. It's crazy how much longer toilet paper lasts now
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uttyrc Apr 17, 2026 +55
I had to quit using the toilet brush because it was too painful.
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raptorcunthrust Apr 17, 2026 +24
Gotta build those calluses.
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goingfullretard-orig Apr 18, 2026 +14
Those aren't calluses.
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hollowlegs111 Apr 18, 2026 +18
Extra thick hemorrhoids enter the chat.
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Johndough99999 Apr 18, 2026 +6
Everyone needs traction when playing in the mud
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overkill Apr 18, 2026 +4
Like balloons full of marbles.
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achtungschnell Apr 18, 2026 +7
Switch to a communal sponge. If it was good enough for the Romans, it’s good enough for us too.
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SpiritTalker Apr 17, 2026 +14
Bidets rule
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sengirminion Apr 18, 2026 +11
And how filthy your butt feels if you aren't able to use a bidet when out and about. Everyone else has smelly/disgusting butts.
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bellecharpe Apr 18, 2026 +14
Gotta stop going around sniffing people’s butts
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profanityridden_01 Apr 18, 2026 +9
They only had to pay us enough to live.
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ZenoxDemin Apr 18, 2026 +7
Just as we are phasing out WFH!
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Dramatic-Tackle5159 Apr 18, 2026 +15
A Wardemic, if you will.
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6BigZ6 Apr 18, 2026 +5
My bingo card melted and I’m not sure why
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Smile_Space Apr 18, 2026 +3
Well, if they're dead that quick it'll probably kill too quickly and fizzle itself out.
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Alone_Again_2 Apr 18, 2026 +3
Highly fatal diseases as a rule don’t go pandemic level. They kill too many hosts and burn out quickly.
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surprised-duncan Apr 18, 2026 +9
We're still in one, so it would just be a double jeopardy scenario and they'll cancel out :)
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hamstringstring Apr 18, 2026 +139
>Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and dark urine, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). In severe cases, people may display neurologic symptoms, anemia (low red blood cells), jaundice, and difficulty breathing. Doesn't sound like it's a hemorrhagic fever in the Marburg family, which is what I expected from the headline.
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SoHereIAm85 Apr 18, 2026 +23
All very clearly mostly liver and then kidney damage. Even the neuro symptoms could be related to liver function.
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Relevant-Guarantee25 Apr 18, 2026 +30
lots of people having similar stories here vomitting and diarrhea going around the south usa but we have medicines and hydration drinks perhaps they could have lived if they had fluids? I've noticed my mcas/histamine intolerance was going away last year but now its back with a vengeance itchy near veins etc extreme fatigue after the throwing up virus but its slowly going away again
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Jazzlike-Equipment45 Apr 18, 2026 +18
No clue what it is but you're correct especially if the pathogen is spread via water people die of dehydration as they shit themselves to death.
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Dramatic_Date8351 Apr 18, 2026 +68
This is just what we need! Another outbreaks.  Lets just see how much shit we can pile on the top of this trash heap
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Apr 18, 2026 +17
> This includes Ebola and Marburg virus diseases, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. That's a lot of hemorrhagic fevers they're testing for...
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kityrel Apr 18, 2026 +5
I... I thought it said... "tested **positive** for more than 200 pathogens" including Ebola, Marburg, yellow fever, etc It did not say that.
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emilyskie Apr 17, 2026 +1189
Scary situation. 35 cases and 5 deaths so far in northern Burundi (Mpanda district), mostly in one household and close contacts.
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Romanopapa Apr 17, 2026 +664
That’s about 15% mortality rate. In comparison, COVID was at 1% killing 7 million worldwide. Yeah…
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Thin_Cat8817 Apr 17, 2026 +1052
A disease with 15% mortality rate in 2026 will never spread like COVID did.  Also, this kind of thing happens very frequently 
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Dullcorgis Apr 18, 2026 +541
It depends. Are the ports still open in Madagascar?
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ohai777 Apr 18, 2026 +238
Let’s hope this one doesn’t put points into Projectile Vomiting
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rinuskoe Apr 18, 2026 +60
is this a Plague Inc reference? lol
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WealthyMarmot Apr 18, 2026 +118
I think 90% of all Madagascar mentions on the Internet are Plague Inc references
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Gin_OClock Apr 18, 2026 +4
I mean the movie would have to be some, no?
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Gwendyl Apr 18, 2026 +7
Yeah, the other 10% is Lemurs
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NayanaGor Apr 18, 2026 +12
It absolutely is.
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stars_ Apr 18, 2026 +118
There was a cough. You know the borders have been closed.
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Azraelrs Apr 18, 2026 +87
Now I'm never getting to Greenland
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solapelsin Apr 18, 2026 +38
Is that you, Donald?
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Safe-Razzmatazz3982 Apr 18, 2026 +12
Too coherent. Must be the brain worm guy.
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ATL2AKLoneway Apr 18, 2026 +4
No no, that guy's got a raccoon d*** stuck in his throat, we'd be able to suss that out pretty quickly. Must be the really really drunk guy with all the guns.
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Dullcorgis Apr 19, 2026 +3
Wait, which one of the really really drunk guys with all the guns?
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Initial-Return8802 Apr 18, 2026 +16
In Madagascar, can confirm they're not (mostly because we've got no fuel)
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MarkMariachiAZ Apr 18, 2026 +7
No but they’re only shipping to Iceland.
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UnidentifiedBlobject Apr 18, 2026 +3
Oh man weird timing to read this. I was just moments ago looking at pics from early 2020 and I saw I had the “shut down everything“ meme from then, now I see this.
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Nodivingallowed Apr 18, 2026 +98
Doesn't that depend a lot on transmissibility and incubation time? 
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nekonight Apr 18, 2026 +111
Long incubation doesnt necessarily mean high transmission during incubation period either. And the most important part is that this is happening in Africa and not china. Like it or not Africa is significantly less well connected to the rest of the world than china which is where the last 2 of 3 world wide pandemic started from. 
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cdurgin Apr 18, 2026 +8
Yeah, it could just be something with a long incubation time and low transmission. Something that doesn't cause many direct issues. Something that's nbd like HIV. That started in a much more rural and unconnected part of Africa as well. The problem is that a new disease can act in new and unexpected pathways and you can never assume that 'it's like this so we don't have to worry much' until it's pathways are known.
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Aggressive_Manner531 Apr 18, 2026 +100
That's NOT true. It depends on how easy it us to transmit, how long it takes for serious symptoms to show, how long it takes to die. If something is easy to transmit, doesn't have very obvious symptoms, and the infected people are ambulatory for a long time the mortality rate could be high while still spreading like covid.
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Xalara Apr 18, 2026 +12
Yeah, that’s the thing people miss. The only reason why viruses tend to become weaker the more contagious they are is because of evolutionary pressure. If a virus with a high mortality rate spreads asymptotically for several days before symptoms develop, it has very little evolutionary pressure to become less deadly. If you’re thinking this sounds somewhat familiar to COVID, you’d be right. We arguably got incredibly lucky that it wasn’t deadlier because it doesn’t have much in the way of evolutionary pressure to become less deadly due to how it spreads. IIIRC it’s remained about the same, it’s just we have vaccines and better protocols at hospitals. Edit: I am speaking in generalities. There are other aspects to evolution that affect things. For example, it is possible that some traits can’t exist alongside other traits, etc. 
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BD401 Apr 18, 2026 +7
Thanks for calling this out. I see it repeated on Listnook all the time that high IFR precludes a virus from being a pandemic strain. While it’s fair to say there’s *generally* an inverse correlation between IFR and transmissibility, it’s not an absolute guarantee. There’s other factors like incubation period and age stratification that come into play too.
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Fluid-Grass Apr 18, 2026 +34
It could if combined with a long incubation rate 
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YoungLittlePanda Apr 18, 2026 +3
Mortality rate is no the only factor that makes a disease a possible pandemic. Untreated HIV mortality rate is well above 90%, and it became a pandemic.
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Yvaelle Apr 18, 2026 +7
If the CDC says it's bad, MAGA's will be importing it on the dark web to have herd immunity fluid exchange parties. Like last time.
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pegothejerk Apr 17, 2026 +59
I'm curious if those deaths occured while in a hospital under treatment or not, because there's viruses that will kill something troubling but lower at like 15% in hospital, but is much deadlier outside a hospital, say 50%. Those numbers are for lassa fever, which does spread in Africa.
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Lazy_Resolve_9747 Apr 18, 2026 +21
Covid was a Goldilocks virus. The mortality rate and incubation period were perfect to sweep the world. (The mortality rate has to be low enough that the virus doesn’t kill itself out before it can spread…but high enough to be a problem.)
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soberpenguin Apr 18, 2026 +32
Small sample size. Not statistically significant.
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hoishinsauce Apr 18, 2026 +20
Covid is a perfect storm for a global pandemic. Remember that Covid is the second version of the earlier, deadlier coronavirus SARS. Its rate of contagion and infection period was just perfect for spreading in human population. If it were as deadly as SARS, it'd be relatively easier to contain, like we did with SARS.
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thetasteofinnocence Apr 18, 2026 +3
Not to mention the big timeline where it rapidly spread. Even if it didn’t come FROM China like some evidence suggests, it was prevalent there riiiight at CNY, the biggest travel holiday.
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Streeg90 Apr 18, 2026 +3
If 7 million is 1% that means only 700 million people had Covid. I doubt that.
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Forward-Fact-5525 Apr 18, 2026 +10
We had roughly the same numbers with Covid at this point. You would have to check the health of said cases before being sick. It happens that with Covid, lots of young people who were infected just weren’t diagnosed with it. Surely to early to panick but concerning
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BigDickedAngel Apr 18, 2026 +4
Mpanda is in Tanzania not Burundi.  
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coffeeisaseed Apr 18, 2026 +9
Seems like there is a commune of Mpanda in Burundi as well
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Apr 18, 2026 +4
> mostly in one household and close contacts. That's the thing about the nasty hemorrhagic diseases - they tend to not spread very well. Contact is a lot easier to avoid than breathing.
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South-Researcher-322 Apr 17, 2026 +838
I refuse to be an essential employee this time
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Rex_Mundi Apr 18, 2026 +120
But, you are a hero!
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whachamacallme Apr 18, 2026 +81
Weird world in which our heroes make minimum wage.
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CuntyBunchesOfOats Apr 18, 2026 +96
Yup f*** that
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ewoksoup Apr 18, 2026 +47
Ooo I wonder I if I'll get a new shirt with "essential worker" on the back of if they'll just have us wear the "vintage" one.
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Lazy_Resolve_9747 Apr 18, 2026 +10
Not enough shirts to go around…just in time supply management and all.
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Yvaelle Apr 18, 2026 +13
"15% of you essential workers will die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make" - DJT
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HotLandscape9755 Apr 18, 2026 +6
You don’t want to keep working for the exact same pay while everyone else sits at home making $900/week on unemployment?
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Broad-Belt-5888 Apr 18, 2026 +3
You won’t get the little medallion and a piece of pizza next year then! Invest in your future!
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archiangel Apr 18, 2026 +534
I remember seeing the AP news alert ping my phone in December 2019 about WHO scientists monitoring a flu outbreak in China. It was literally a single-sentence notification. I remembered thinking, ‘Huh, that’s an odd things to share as a Breaking News update, with barely any information. This could go sideways… but is probably nothing.’ 3 months later….
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Monkeyg8tor Apr 18, 2026 +318
Those initial 2019 alerts were also very misleading in that they stated there was no person to person transmission. The name of Dr Li Wenliang needs to be remembered for his courage. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382
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cdurgin Apr 18, 2026 +56
No person to person transmission is kinda more terrifying tbh. Like, how is it transmitting person to person then? Animal bites?
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tidepill Apr 18, 2026 +51
Dirty thoughts
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Scrambley Apr 18, 2026 +47
Utah first state to be completely wiped out.
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Yvaelle Apr 18, 2026 +19
It was January when I saw a video from Wuhan of people wailing into the night while going insane after weeks of lockdown. You could sense the, "oh f*** this is real" of it.
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strawberrylampshade0 Apr 18, 2026 +47
Misleading in that in September 2019, a handful of friends and I transited through Hong Kong back to US and there were three temp screening sensors just from the plane exit into the international terminal. Out of 5, 3 got stopped for additional temp forehead reading (4th reading). 95% of the others pulled over for more screening were Chinese from mainland flights. We were transiting Thailand to US. Come Christmas time ‘19 I had an employee visit HK family, and the whole group came back with a month long lingering cough, infant baby included. There were signs.
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RealHooman2187 Apr 18, 2026 +57
I’m pretty sure Covid was spreading as early as September or even very late-August 2019. I remember in October 2019 reports of China having a nasty flu season with a lot more deaths than usual. I think for this reason we will never truly know the extent of the deaths from Covid. By the time we knew what it was it was already everywhere.
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overkill Apr 18, 2026 +23
My dad was in hospital in Vermont for a couple of weeks with a "mystery virus" in November 2019. It nearly did him in. Looking back in March 2020 it was clearly COVID. I went over to see him in February and there was literally no warnings, no signs, nothing, in any airport in the US. In the UK there were a handful of signs saying "watch out for coughs" or some shit like that. No one was wearing masks anywhere. Meanwhile my colleagues and I (programmers, not emergency planning or anything related) started tracking the numbers on a daily basis in January 2020, making extrapolations, buying additional food, and gaming how it could play out. We were wildly incorrect and it was a rubbish apocalypse (for us, anyway).
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chula198705 Apr 18, 2026 +5
I've told this story before! In February 2020, my daughter and I had a mystery illness that was unlike any other cold we'd ever had. We weren't *sicker* than usual but it was a different type of sick - more fatigue and body aches and much less respiratory than any previous cold. We got it a few days after having a lengthy conversation at the library with another young family who had just returned from visiting family in central China. Looking back, I'm convinced it was actually COVID.
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overkill Apr 18, 2026 +3
Yeah, sounds like it. Obvious in hindsight, a mystery at the time.
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strawberrylampshade0 Apr 18, 2026 +6
Yes you are absolutely right. I fully believe it was known maybe as early as August, but definitely well known regionally in September and they were looking for it actively, but since all of us cleared health screening i don’t know what measures they were taking in September to limit spread. They cleared my friends and we transited back to US as normal.
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dawnraid101 Apr 18, 2026 +6
Those temp scanners have been at HK airport forever atleast since c 2010, so wouldnt read too much into it. Although I agree this was going on earlier than acknowledged.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Apr 18, 2026 +6
With that said, there is such a headline approximately every year...
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Illustrious-Gas-9766 Apr 18, 2026 +474
Lucky we have brain worm bobby to guide us through this.
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old_righty Apr 18, 2026 +110
The cure? Raw milk.
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jcamp088 Apr 18, 2026 +45
You have to drink it in a sauna with Kid Rock and wear jeans. 
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Gelada6 Apr 18, 2026 +14
Diabolical.
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whoamdave Apr 18, 2026 +3
Guess I'll die.
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Lazy_Resolve_9747 Apr 18, 2026 +10
I thought it was raccoon d***
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chillwithpurpose Apr 18, 2026 +8
You drink the raw milk using the raccoon d*** as a straw, obviously.
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Lazy_Resolve_9747 Apr 18, 2026 +3
BRB, going to throw up the virus.
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843OG Apr 18, 2026 +112
Remember the hot zone or kitum cave. That was on the other side of Lake Victoria. That’s where Ebola, Marburg virus, and maybe aids came from.
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YoghurtFlan Apr 18, 2026 +40
Everybody's worried about ancient viruses in Antarctic glaciers, not knowing adventurers in colonial times found the cave from hell in Africa and brought back visitors
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Dbag85 Apr 18, 2026 +33
Huh? I have not heard about this. Do tell more *sits down by the fire*
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843OG Apr 18, 2026 +92
There was this horrible disease called Marburg virus that originated from kitum cave. Hikers from Europe went in and came out with a disease that was unknown to science. It caused fever, hemorrhaging, and it killed half the people that got it. Despite well financed efforts to pinpoint what caused it, there was no direct evidence found. It’s a massive cave system connected to remote wilderness. The region around mount Elgon is the source of diseases with terrifying mortality rates, like Ravn, Ebola, yellow fever, rift valley fever, Marburg virus, and possibly aids.
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iLrkRddrt Apr 18, 2026 +19
…move Chernobyl into there and kill 2 birds with one stone.
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ThatGuy721 Apr 18, 2026 +24
Or: super-AIDS. I dunno if this is a gamble we wanna take
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ventiicedwithcream Apr 18, 2026 +7
Get two birds stoned at once
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Pawneewafflesarelife Apr 18, 2026 +34
Isn't the current theory that it's an ancient pathogen stirred up every now and then when elephants scrape salt off the walls?
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Odd-Guess1213 Apr 18, 2026 +36
No lol, it’s bat guano
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Dbag85 Apr 18, 2026 +17
Oh, man. That sounds really terrifying. They should mow it all down and make a parking space instead. 😐
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Low-Commission1791 Apr 18, 2026 +20
They paved hell and put up a parking lot? You could make a song out of that 😯🤔😂😂
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ZestycloseAd5918 Apr 18, 2026 +10
Read The Hot Zone. That shit was terrifying for a sophomore biology summer reading pick.
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Dbag85 Apr 18, 2026 +8
The older I get, the scarier realistic horror gets. Thank you for the recommendation 👍
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arand0md00d Apr 18, 2026 +3
Lake Victoria one place I'm never going to go between the lake itself with every parasite and worm imaginable to caves with organ dissolving viruses eeeeeeeeeee
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bostwickenator Apr 17, 2026 +239
In the poorest county in the world yikes I hope the WHO has some funding left.
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old_righty Apr 18, 2026 +195
I have some bad news, and some bad news.
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rowger Apr 18, 2026 +23
I can't decide on which I want first.
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HeartyBeast Apr 18, 2026 +7
That goodness the US CDC is till a world-leading respected organis… oh, never mind 
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Plane_Discipline_198 Apr 18, 2026 +74
All these comments are either jokes or COVID references. Can anyone with insight confirm whether this mystery pathogen is hemorrhagic or more like a coronavirus? Basically, is it only spreading in close quarters due to close contact with bodily fluids or is it airborne as well?
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Asaneth Apr 18, 2026 +26
If it was hemorrhagic, I think they would have referenced that specifically due to the similarity to ebola and Marburg?
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Commercial-Buddy2469 Apr 18, 2026 +15
It looks like this pathogen affects the liver and brain.
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Chuvi Apr 18, 2026 +32
Drink up folks. If I'm gonna lose them, I might as well destroy them my way
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MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS Apr 18, 2026 +4
Oh I damage those everyday that’s fine
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Smile-Nod Apr 17, 2026 +309
Unsubscribe
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WoolooGangMember02 Apr 18, 2026 +26
I will NOT like and subscribe.
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TheDwarvenGuy Apr 18, 2026 +59
Please god I don't want to experience any more historical events
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trixayyyyy Apr 18, 2026 +34
Nah we only do historic shit now
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stealth_veil Apr 17, 2026 +123
Are they going to shut down people coming/going from the area? Or just let us know there’s a mystery illness and do nothing?
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WigglyLimpo Apr 17, 2026 +61
One would like to think that because they have enough evidence to report on it, that would already be happening, but the fact that it isn't quite clear or that they may not have implemented any procedure yet is scary to think about.
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stealth_veil Apr 17, 2026 +23
The affected country should shut down their own borders but unfortunately all other countries are likely going to have to impose restrictions from Burundi. And that will take precious time.
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_Haverford_ Apr 18, 2026 +21
This not uncommon. You are witnessing an artifact of all news being global.
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mirkk13 Apr 17, 2026 +158
Just what we needed now that the Iran situation quieted down a bit
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Elendils_Bear Apr 17, 2026 +98
Trump hasnt yet tried releasing a new virus to distract from the epstein files
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DrDankDankDank Apr 18, 2026 +57
There could be a video of trump raping a kid and the republicans wouldn’t impeach him. They’re all too far gone.
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l33tleteapot Apr 18, 2026 +14
They'd claim it's AI generated.
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exMemberofSTARS Apr 18, 2026 +10
Why would they? That’s a pro for Trump to them, not a con. Republicans actively sexualize children and would marry them as a preteen if they could.
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IndependenceSad9576 Apr 18, 2026 +6
And we bailed on the WHO. I NEED a different timeline
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hibikikun Apr 18, 2026 +42
Uh did they perhaps go touch a cave wall?
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Asaneth Apr 18, 2026 +19
They tested for that one, and it was negative.
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32FlavorsofCrazy Apr 18, 2026 +15
Yikes, that’s a bit concerning that they don’t even know the cause yet. Most likely culprits (over 200 of them) have been ruled out…at least it seems to only be spreading through close contact. Hopefully with good contact tracing and isolation they can get a lid on this thing. Last f****** thing the world needs right now is another pandemic that’s twice as lethal as Covid.
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itsEthanEX Apr 18, 2026 +51
“We’re doin’ a sequel… By popular demand…”
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Torash Apr 17, 2026 +28
Las Plagas!
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ALth0r Apr 18, 2026 +21
Burundi is about to open the strait of hormuz alright.
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Practical-Injury-622 Apr 18, 2026 +14
Oh boy, these times are starting to feel uncertain
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BoatWeak Apr 17, 2026 +38
Oh man here we go
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caitnicrun Apr 17, 2026 +5
Right? Just what the world needs ATM.
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CrazyinLull Apr 18, 2026 +17
😭 Omg, please…Trump is in office. We can’t. Not now.
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mazurbnm Apr 17, 2026 +53
Okay who fucked the wildlife again?
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Justintime4u2bu1 Apr 18, 2026 +39
Medical textbooks insist that HIV jumped from primates to humans because someone ate improperly prepared monkey meat. Literally the only conspiracy I believe in is that someone definitely fucked a monkey.
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freebaseclams Apr 18, 2026 +22
Someone was butchering a monkey, and got infected blood in an open wound. They were butchering said monkey because they were hungry from a long day of monkey f******.
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manbeardawg Apr 18, 2026 +9
Goddamned Randy…
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FesteringAynus Apr 18, 2026 +17
Hey! I remember reading similar articles from Hong Kong about COVID about 7 months before it hit mainstream news
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Haunting_Explorer376 Apr 18, 2026 +4
Not again
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Turd_Fergusons_ Apr 18, 2026 +12
Viva la bush meat
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ragingclaw Apr 17, 2026 +18
Start stocking up on bleach and UV lights I guess. JFC, another pandemic is all we f****** need now.
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tonitalksaboutit Apr 18, 2026 +7
Get your tp and/or bidets now.
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ragingclaw Apr 18, 2026 +6
So, I can't use my bidet. I miss it. I had to move into an apartment from my house after I got divorced and because of the way the place is constructed my bidet won't fit on the toilet because of the proximity to the wall. It's going on 3 years now and I have to tell you, I'd do about anything to get my bidet back, even punch an infant. Yeah, they are that f****** awesome.
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radwimps Apr 18, 2026 +12
Just get a hand held battery one bro damn
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kristospherein Apr 18, 2026 +13
Send RFK in. Maybe his brainworm will eat it.
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Rad-racer-Cru Apr 18, 2026 +3
[ Removed by Listnook ]
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Tyton420 Apr 18, 2026 +3
Woah
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Dangerous-Education3 Apr 18, 2026 +3
This seems the start of a Plague Inc game
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PinkPaintedSky Apr 18, 2026 +3
Round 2, FIGHT!
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eartwormslimshady Apr 18, 2026 +3
Huh. So I'm in the middle of a war in the Middle East, and now there's another pandemic to worry about. Bueno. Bueno bueno bueno.
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bambam007rocket Apr 18, 2026 +8
Yes, we need the CDC.
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lufan132 Apr 18, 2026 +8
Welp. Right back to the apocalypse. Are we having fun yet? I just want my regularly scheduled programming back...
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KitsuneKamiSama Apr 18, 2026 +4
Ah f***.
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Relative-Rub1634 Apr 18, 2026 +4
Buy Moderna (mrna). Their vaccine ended covid and mrna technology can be used for development of future vaccines.
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NullOfUndefined Apr 18, 2026 +11
Hope this one kills me, I’m tired.
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SIRENVII Apr 18, 2026 +9
Idk man a Google search shows this has been a thing since December of 2024 and many more have died than 5.
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Worth_Range1563 Apr 18, 2026 +9
Yes but which Google search and why not share the link to your evidence
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GunmetalChris Apr 18, 2026 +2
Stop bloody flying them in!
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martinsuchan Apr 18, 2026 +2
We had a good run.
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