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

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.