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WESTLAKE, Ohio (WOIO) - University Hospitals say staff are “utilizing proper masking and isolation protocols” after a patient arrived to UH St. John Medical Center’s Emergency Department with flu-like symptoms. According to a spokesperson, the patient recently traveled from the Tanzania to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. An earlier version of this story stated the patient arrived from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the hospital later clarified. The patient ultimately ended up at UH St. John Medical Center’s Emergency Department “with flu-like symptoms.” SNIP

A strange, new illness festering in the heart of Africa has killed 179 people and counting – and most of the victims are teenagers, authorities said. The unidentified disease has infected at least 300 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms including fever, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties and anemia, that country’s health ministry told the BBC. Most of the dead have been between 16 and 18, authorities said. The government has dispatched a medical team to the Kwango Province, where the disease is most common, to investigate the strange outbreak, Reuters reported. The...