The mystery behind the unknown disease that killed dozens of people just 48 hours after the World Health Organization first demonstrated on Friday, the Democratic Republic of Congo seemed to contradict African medical experts.
At least 60 people died and became ill in the Équateur province of Congo due to the disease, characterized by “fever, headache, chills, sweating, stiff neck, sore muscles, multiple joint pain and body pain, runny nose or bleeding or bleeding nose, cough, vomiting, vomiting, vomiting, vomiting and diarrhea”
W.Ho Emergency Director Michael Ryan said at a press conference on Friday that the diseases are likely to be caused by poisoning, contradicting the theory proposed by experts from the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, which is supposedly attributed to malaria.
“Based onset of symptoms to death, it looks and looks more like a toxic event, either from a biological point of view (such as meningitis) or chemical exposure,” Dr. Ryan said. He added that “there is a strong suspicion” that poisoning is associated with “water sources.”
Who said investigators determined that the initial outbreak began in the northwest village of Boloko and then spread to nearby Danda Village. The second outbreak occurred in Bomate Village.
Preliminary investigations document the outbreak among three children who ate bats and died in January. After death, the children were bleeding from their noses and vomited blood.
Viruses in bats are known to cause a variety of diseases in humans and are considered natural storage for the Marburg and Ebola viruses, two types of hemorrhagic fevers are the source of the continued outbreak in the region.
The WHO said laboratory tests produced negative results for Marburg and Ebola, but about half of the samples tested positive for malaria, which was rampant in the region. The samples are also testing for meningitis.
Dr. Ngashi Ngongo of the African CDC said in a virtual press conference Thursday that early testing showed a link to malaria.
Équateur disease “very similar to what happened in Pazzi last year” Dr. Ngongo said it refers to a booming disease that infects hundreds of people in the southwestern part of the country. It was later discovered that the disease may be a complex respiratory infection of malaria.
Although the WHO said it has been assisting local authorities, recent U.S. funding cuts could reduce aid to the country.
The United States may have deployed before the Trump administration recently cuts USDA Experts in the Congo Desert Zone. Today, the agency has less than 10 remaining personnel to deal with the global outbreak, including those caused by the Ebola virus, MPOX and MARBUG.
The outbreak in the north-west Équateur province is hundreds of miles away from the ongoing war and the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo.
Stephanie Nolen Contribution report.
