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Infectious disease experts ARE concerned about mysterious pneumonia in Argentina that has infected 10 and killed three
A mysterious form of pneumonia has emerged in Argentina, infecting ten people and killing three. Some fear that the mysterious infection could be the source of the next Covid-like pandemic, though experts are saying it is too early to be sure.The mysterious illness was detected in the South American nation's Tucumán province - the most densely populated part of Argentina. Officials are not sure what the source of the sickness is, but have ruled out clear suspects like Covid, influenza and hantavirus. Some fear that it could have jumped from an animals to humans. Eight confirmed cases are among health workers in the region have been infected as well - indicating that it is contagious.
While officials in Argentina are sounding alarms about the unknown disease, many experts are not quite yet concerned. Dr Davidson Hammer, an infectious disease expert at Boston University, told DailyMail.com that the current risk level to Americans is a 0.1 out of 10.
Others are saying that it is too early to write it off, but that it is likely that the outbreak will 'fizzle out' the way many other mysterious illnesses in the past. Hammer says that in a pre-Covid world, many of these types of alerts would emerge before experts figured out that the illness in question was something they had already known about.
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