Bird flu didn’t deliver the panic some hoped for, so the focus shifts to a new disease in the Congo.

Question

Bird flu never lived up to the scaremongering, so now the eternally petrified are moving onto a new disease in the Congo to panic about.

Answer 1

Is there a new disease in Congo that people should be panicking about?

Fact-checked: Exaggerated/Misleading.

There is indeed a mysterious illness, which the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling "disease X," according to CBS News. It has killed at least 31 people — mostly children — in the remote Panzi region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said. The WHO stated the risk at a global level remains low, however, making the claim exaggerated/misleading.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/disease-x-mysterious-illness-congo-children-deaths/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/12/10/world-health-organization-mystery-disease-congo/76838589007/

https://www.nyas.org/ideas-insights/blog/unraveling-the-mystery-in-the-drcs-disease-outbreak-is-it-disease-x/