None of these are the fever Peggy Lee was singing about.

Sources:

• - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/25/health/congo-mystery-illness/index.html

  - https://www.wired.com/story/race-to-identify-drcs-mystery-illness-slowed-by-us-aid-cuts-democratic-republic-congo-usaid/

  - https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-congo-outbreak-likely-linked-contaminated-water-researchers-say

  - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congo-mystery-disease-deaths-who-investigation-deepens/

  - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-disease-congo-what-we-know/

  - http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-monitoring-unknown-disease-congo/story?id=119395101

  - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congo-war-m23-rebels-rwanda-goma-un-warns-gang-rape-summary-executions/

  - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/ebola#:~:text=What%20is%20Ebola%3F,leaks%20from%20small%20blood%20vessels.

  - https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/about/index.html

  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola

  - https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/outbreaks/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/history/chronology.html

  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

  - https://newshour-classroom-tc.digi-producers.pbs.org/uploads/app/uploads/2014/09/Excerpt-from-The-Hot-Zone-for-PBS-NewsHour-Education-Random-House.pdf

  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus_disease

Lorien talks about literal ticking time bombs.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordnance
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_explosion
• https://apple.news/AT8BA2xInTWeIMDQUDcddTA
• https://www.epa.gov/fedfac/military-munitionsunexploded-ordnance
• https://www.icrc.org/en/law-and-policy/explosive-remnants-war
• https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24441427
• https://abcnews.go.com/International/160-unexploded-bombs-world-war-ii-found-childrens/story?id=118724569
• https://abcnews.go.com/International/160-unexploded-bombs-world-war-ii-found-childrens/story?id=118724569
• https://www.hi.org/en/news/landmines--22--more-victims-in-one-year#:~:text=Published on 20 November, the,of the victims were civilians.
• https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135252

Black mold, and radon, and asbestos, oh my!

Sources:

- https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24862-black-mold

- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323419#Symptoms-of-black-mold-exposure

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachybotrys_chartarum

- https://www.webmd.com/lung/can-black-mold-kill-you

- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/radon-and-health#:~:text=Radon%20is%20a%20radioactive%20gas,and%20produces%20further%20radioactive%20particles.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon

- https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/millions-in-u-s-exposed-to-dangerous-radon-study-finds/

- https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/radon-the-odorless-invisible-threat

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#:~:text=Asbestos%20(/%C3%A6s%CB%88b,%2C%20asbestosis%2C%20and%20lung%20cancer.

- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tysonbottenus/black-mold-growing-toxic-brain-vacation

- https://www.asbestos.com/news/2025/01/10/raging-california-wildfires-may-spread-toxic-asbestos/

- https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/protect-your-family-exposures-asbestos

- https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/how-toxic-mold-cost-one-austin-family-their-home-health/