An unspecified disease appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mysterious Ebola -like symptoms appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to Global Health OrganizationThe disease has been discovered for the first time on January 21, and over the past five weeks, hundreds of hundreds have died and more than 50 people have died in the northwest of the country. Health officials did not limit the cause of the disease.

Initial investigations indicate that the fascism started in the village of Buluko, where three children died within days of the body of the bat. Symptoms of fever, headache, diarrhea, nose and blood in the blood and general bleeding – which are suitable for symptoms caused by viruses such as viruses such as Ebola And Marburg. However, these experts excluded pathogens after testing more than ten samples of suspected cases.

In early February, the health authorities recorded a second group of cases and deaths in the village of Bomate, several hundred kilometers away, although there is no known link between the groups. As of February 15, when the World Health Organization, which has last reported the outbreak of the disease, a total of 431 suspected infection was reported, including 53 deaths. In most cases, the interval between the appearance of symptoms and death was only 48 hours.

18 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, and a negative test of the most common pathogens associated with the symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, although some have been tested positively for malaria. “The exact cause is still unknown, as Ebola and Marburg have already been excluded, raising concerns about a severe or toxic infectious worker.” Who wrote In her latest bulletin on the outbreak of the disease, with an emphasis on the urgent need to accelerate laboratory investigations, improve the administration and isolation of the injured, and increase monitoring and risk communication. “The remote location and the infrastructure of weak health care increases the risk of more spread, which requires immediate high -level intervention to contain fascism.”

The outbreaks of diseases caused by pathogens in animals that are transmitted to humans – a process known as an animal luster – have become more common in Africa. Changing land use and changing climate are major drivers, as they can increase contact between humans and wildlife that displays the nurse. According to estimates Who isThe outbreaks of animal to people to people increased by 63 percent in Africa between 2012 and 2022. The continent has seen a multiple outbreak of MPOX in recent years, as well as groups of Ebola and Marburg.

Late last year, another mysterious disease killed more than 70 people in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and many of them were children. The symptoms in this fascism resembled influenza, and most of the patient’s samples that were tested are positive for malaria. Fascism is later to the respiratory infections that malaria exacerbate.

This story was originally appeared on Wireless Italy It was translated from Italian.