An American traveling to Africa recently reported he was suffering from diarrhea.
When asked why, the traveler said he was “not feeling well,” according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
It was the latest in a series of bizarre cases from travelers around the country.
The Times reported that a California woman recently went to the emergency room with a fever and was diagnosed with a COVID-19-like illness.
An American woman also went to a hospital in California with a respiratory infection after a flight from London to Dubai.
And a Pennsylvania man went to an emergency room after he was diagnosed on Wednesday with a mysterious illness, the newspaper reported.
A woman from Illinois recently visited Africa and returned with a flu.
Her husband and her son were both hospitalized for respiratory infections, according to the Chicago Tribune.
And two Michigan women who were visiting Africa reported coughing and having a fever when they returned from Africa.
One of the women said she “coughed up blood,” the newspaper said.
But she didn’t say anything to her husband about the flu.
“I didn’t tell him I was sick or anything,” she told the paper.