Examples of 13 patients were sent to the National Institute of Biomedical Studies in Kinshas – the Congo Capital – for review.
An unknown disease said the lives of more than 50 people in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In most cases, the gap between the onset of symptoms and death is 48 hours. It was said by the medical director of the Hospital Bikoro Regional Monitoring Center Serge Nalebato, AR.
The final outbreak of the Democratic Republic of the Congo began on January 21. Today, 419 cases have been registered, including 53 dead.
According to the African who African Bureau, the first outbreak in the city of Bolok began after three children were eating a bat and died within 48 hours after the appearance of hemorrhagic fever symptoms.
The WHO said that after February 9, the second outbreak of the current unknown disease began in the city of Bomat, examples of 13 patients were sent to the National Institute of Biomedical Studies in Kinshas – the Congo Capital – for review.
Samples are negative for Ebola fever or other common hemorrhagic fever, such as Marburg, but some have been positive for malaria.
Last year, it was found that another mysterious disease, similar to the flu, which killed twelve -two people in other parts of the Congo, perhaps malaria.
Earlier it was reported that at least 79 people died from an unknown disease, the symptoms resembling the flu.
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