The unidentified illness has killed many people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and infected hundreds, the World Health Organization reports, and a reserve that appeared in three children who died after eating bats in January An investigation was conducted.
As of February 15, 53 people in the northwest of the country said that “almost half of deaths have arisen from symptoms” in one of two identified clusters of 431 reported cases. He died in the reported case. Weekly breaking news published by Who's Africa Office.
“An outbreak where cases rise rapidly within a few days poses a serious public health threat,” the report said, “The exact cause remains unknown.”
Symptoms of the victim include fever, vomiting, diarrhea and physical pain, among other things. Children who died of illness also bleed from the nose and vomited blood.
The link to bats can be important as bat viruses are known to cause many other diseases in humans. Bats are thought to be natural reservoirs of the Malburg and Ebola viruses, and are two hemorrhagic fevers that are the source of ongoing outbreaks in the region, and bat viruses were precursors of the Covid-19 virus Apparently.
The disease, which infected people in the state of Ecuature in Congo, was fatal in over 12% of cases. Investigators identified the first outbreak in Boroko village, which spread to nearby Dunda village, WHO said. The second largest outbreak occurred in Bomate Village, infecting more than 400 people.
Investigators sent 18 samples to Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, to eliminate the virus in Ebola and Marburg.
Last year, the unknown fading disease infected hundreds of people in the country's southwestern part of the country. It was found that it was likely a respiratory infection that was later complicated by malaria.
The unknown outbreak in the northwest Ecrate province has been removed hundreds of miles from the war, deepening the humanitarian crisis that has ripped through eastern Congo. The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are fighting the Congolese forces there and have gained the ground.
Ector covers an area of the size of Kentucky, spanning the Congo River.
