A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC

A mysterious disease Ebola has been published in the Democratic Republic of Congo with national signs. Accordingly World Health OrganizationThe disease was first detected on January 26 and over the past five weeks, several hundred infected and more than 5 people died in the north -west of the country. Health officials have not yet determined the cause of the disease.

Preliminary investigation has been advised that the outbreak in the village of Boloko began, where three children died within days of the bat. Symptoms of infection include fever, headache, diarrhea, nasal, nausea and common bleeding – which match the symptoms caused by viruses Ebola And Marberg. However, experts canceled the pathogens after examining more than a dozen samples from suspected cases.

In early February, the Health Authority recorded the second cluster of cases and deaths in the village of Bomet several hundred kilometers away, although there is currently no familiar connection between the bunch. Until February 7, when the WHO lately reported the outbreak, a total of 5 suspected infections were reported, of which 5 were killed. In most cases, the gap between the symptoms and the onset of death was only 48 hours.

Six cases samples have been sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the capital of the DRC, negatively testing the most common pathogens associated with hemorrhagic fever, though some have positively tested for malaria. “Ebola and Murberg already refuses, the exact cause remains unknown by raising concerns about a serious infectious or toxic agent,” the Who wrote In his recent bulletin on the outbreak, emphasizing the urgent need to accelerate the laboratory investigation, to improve the management and improve isolation, and to increase surveillance and risk communication. “Remote positions and poor healthcare infrastructure increases the risk of spreading further, requiring immediate high-level intervention to contain the outbreak.”

The outbreaks of diseases caused by pathogens in human beings – it becomes more common in Africa in Africa, a process known as zonotic spillover. There are two main drivers to use land and change climate change, as they both can increase communication between people and pathogen-harming in the wild life. According to the assumption From whoThe prevalence of animals infected between Africa between 202 and 2022 has increased by 5 percent in Africa. This continent has seen clusters in Ebola and Murberg as well as multiple outbreaks of MPOX in recent years.

Late last year, another mysterious illness killed more than 70 people in the south -west of the DRC, many of them children. The symptoms of this outbreak were flu-national and most patients tested are positive for malaria. This outbreak was later attributed to the infection of the extended respiratory infection by malaria.

This story was originally attended Wired Italia And translated from Italian.