Leaded Gasoline, Orca Hats and ‘Disease X’

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

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An outbreak of an unknown illness has occurred in the Democratic of the Congo, which has already been dealing with the spread of mpox. A new study finds that leaded gasoline could be responsible for 151 million cases of mental health disorders, with impacts highest among members of Generation X. Upping your daily movement could protect you from cardiovascular events. Plus, we look at Venus’s past and fashion-forward orcas. Recommended reading: For Orcas, Dead Salmon Hats Are Back in Fashion after 37 Years Mpox Is a Global Health Emergency. Here’s What We Know Lead from Old Paint and Pipes Is Still a Deadly Hazard in Millions of U.S. Homes E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Jeffery DelViscio with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.3	Happy Monday listeners.
0:38.9	For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Fultman.
0:42.1	Let's take a few minutes to catch up on some science stories you might have missed.
0:49.7	Last week, health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported that an unidentified
0:55.5	disease with flu-like symptoms had killed dozens of people in November.
1:00.2	Last Tuesday, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization said that the agency has been
1:04.9	made aware of the outbreak and was working with local public health investigators to learn more.
1:09.4	As we've discussed in previous episodes,
1:11.7	the DRC is already dealing with a serious epidemiological problem. The country is considered
1:16.9	the epicenter of the current global M-Pox outbreak and accounts for 99% of related deaths,
1:22.2	according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Siam editors are keeping a close eye on this as-get-unidentified new outbreak, so we'll share
1:31.1	more information as soon as we have it.
1:33.2	In other public health news, a new study looking back at the impact of leaded gasoline
1:37.5	came to some troubling conclusions.
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