World News

32315 readers

1039 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

jackmarxist@lemmy.ml

zephyreks@lemmy.ml

OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml

113

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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] neko@fishfry.cheese.beer 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure in what quantities but a few rare earths do appear in bauxite deposits.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looking at a table of Goldshmidt classifications, chromium and vanadium should too. None of those are usually called heavy metals, though.