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Hekate

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4. I'll tell you the first thing I thought of: before AIDS was ever given a name, it was rare cancers showing up ...
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 03:51 AM
Jun 2024

…that alerted doctors that something new was going on. Only later did they identify it as a virus.

So — long COVID — a deadly virus which has by now already been identified — and rare cancers.

I don’t like the sounds of this at all. Especially since my sister has recently had a very iffy shadow show up on her routine mammogram. No lump. And her doc wants to biopsy it yesterday. And a pre-melanoma on her ankle that her dermatologist also wants to thoroughly excise. Oh, did I mention she was an early COVID patient who spent 5 days in the hospital?

Well, thank you for this article and link. Downloading to read later.

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