How worried should we be about Disease X?

An unidentified illness has claimed nearly 80 lives in DRC. Investigators are on the scenes to determine what it is — and how much of a threat it poses to locally and globally

How worried should we be about Disease X?
An unidentified illness has been reported in Kwango Province, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An unidentified illness has claimed nearly 80 lives in DRC. Investigators are on the scenes to determine what it is — and how much of a threat it poses to locally and globally

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