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[–] noisefree 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ugh, dengue fever is awful. The timeline of symptoms is neat unless you’re going through them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Oh shit, here we go again.

[–] reverie 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Methylman 4 points 1 year ago

Not BNN Bloomberg for any confused Canadians

[–] rich8n 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reads like the beginning of a game of Plague, Inc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Broken bones? How is that a symptom?!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect it's a translation issue. @noisefree linked in another, less sensational article that says this is dengue fever. And the old name for dengue fever was "break-bone fever", because of the massive amount of bone and joint pain it caused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh thank you. That is much less terrifying.

[–] noisefree 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's probably "bone pain" scrambled in translation, since it's a dengue fever outbreak.

[–] AttackBunny 3 points 1 year ago

I hope it’s just a catch all data kind of thing. Like anything anyone has wrong with them gets lumped in to be filtered later. Idk. I’m guessing here.

[–] dilligasatall 3 points 1 year ago

Symptoms such as high temperatures, broken bones, vomiting, dizziness, and headaches have left the community grappling with uncertainty and fear.

I think I'd be too. High fevers are one thing, but I don't want my bones broken on top of that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if I can have another stimmy check.