Current Events > Wait, wait, wait...this is a thing? MERS (Middle East Respitory Syndrome)?

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AFrench2
02/26/20 8:15:24 PM
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/18/wuhan-china-coronavirus-hospital-director-dies-covid/4792597002/

The Middle East respiratory syndrome is even more lethal: Since 2012, about 2,500 MERS cases in 27 countries have killed more than 850 people, or about one in three of those infected.

So wait, wait, wait...basically we are shortening what was otherwise in the 1990's called "Saddam Hussein had Iraq blaze the oilfields as we came in during the Gulf War and fuck over everyone in the area" is now called "Middle East Respitory Syndrome"?

I didn't know we just came up with actual names for fake illnesses caused by billions of tonnes of oil being choked into your air for 30 years...

The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of Coalition military forces in the Persian Gulf War. The fires were started in January and February 1991, and the first well fires were extinguished in early April 1991, with the last well capped on November 6, 1991.[3]

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