With Covid 19, the Media realized that they can earn big money by scaring people with diseases.
They want to earn every dollar and cents they can from medical scaremongering no matter how ridiculous it is.
Exotic diseases are hot news as people are not familiar with them to tell it's media's bullshit.
Now they are trying to hype up Hand Foot and Mouth disease. This is a very mild disease that mostly affect children and spontaneously resolve.