Kinshasa – An unknown disease was killed more than 50 people in the northwest of the Congo, according to doctors on Earth and the World Health Organization on Monday.
The interval between the appearance of symptoms and death was 48 hours in most cases, and “this is really concern.”
The latest outbreak of the disease began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on January 21, and 419 cases were recorded, including 53 deaths.
According to the World Health Organization office in Africa, the first outbreak began in the town of Buluko after he ate three children of bats and died within 48 hours after the symptoms of hemorrhagic fever.
For a long time, there have been concerns about the diseases that jump from animals to humans in places where wild animals are eaten popularly. The number of these outbreaks in Africa has increased by more than 60 % in the past decade, and the World Health Organization said in 2022.
After the outbreak of the second disease of the current mystery in the town of Bomate on February 9, 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the Congo capital, Kinshasa, for testing, World Health Organization.
All samples were negative to Ebola or other common hemorrhagic fever diseases such as Marburg. Some test is positive for malaria.
Last year, another influenza -like disease that killed dozens of people in another part of the Congo was designed to be malaria.