WEBDESK (Azaad English): The Health officials of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confronted a disease during the first month of the year. According to Al Jazeera this mystery Disease in Congo has killed 53 patients.
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) Endemic health problems with hemorrhagic fever-like indicators make experts concerned because patients rapidly succumb to death after showing symptoms within 48 hours.
The disease outbreak started in January in Boloko within Equateur Province when three young children died shortly after eating a deceased bat. Deaths following a new outbreak emerged successively in the neighboring areas of Danda and Bomate. A total of 431 individual cases surfaced during February with a deadly trajectory of 12.3% reported among patients.
What Are the Symptoms of Mystery Disease in Congo?
People affected by the mystery disease in Congo have indicated fever symptoms alongside chills, headaches and body pain, runny nose and coughing, vomiting and diarrhea as well as stomach cramps. Internal bleeding along with nosebleeds and the vomiting of blood exists as common symptoms which also appear in patients with Ebola or Marburg viral hemorrhagic infections.
What Is Causing the Disease?
Medical experts together with doctors continue to search for the exact origins of this mystery disease in Congo. The World Health Organization (WHO) eliminated Ebola and Marburg virus from their investigation while continuing examinations to identify the origin. The disease shows potential zoonotic qualities since it began with children who consumed a bat.
Health authorities created isolation centers in the affected areas while inhabitants receive instructions for disease control. The difficult nature of responses comes from the challenging healthcare system combined with the isolated areas where illnesses occur as WHO teams follow both contact tracing protocols and sample testing steps.
Scientists hurry to identify the virus because there are concerns about how much it could spread causing significant health problems in this region.
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