An unknown disease was found in three children who ate a bat has killed more than 50 people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past five weeks according to the health workers.
As 16 February were 431 cases and 53 deaths in the two migrate against the remote villages in the Equateur province, the world Sanity Organization (who) said in the bulletin.
“And setting up the cases get up rapidly within a day, pose a significant public safety risk. The exact cause remains unknown” who spokesperson tarik jašarević to the Briefing in Tuesday.
Villas have a limited custody of the ability to health infrastructure, noted.
The older is reported at 13 February a Bomate Village in Basankusu Health Zone, which killed 45 people of 419 cases.
The interval of an attack symptoms – includes fever, vomiting and internal blood – and death was 48 hours in many and “it’s what’s really worried,” he says, what’s the course of what’s on Medical Medical Bikoro Hospital, a Regional Center.
Examples of 13 cases tested negatively River And, but he said, salvation teams are locally investigating other power causes, including malaria, food poisoning, typhoide, menditis or other viral haemorrhagic febring.
An upper case, involving eight death between 12 cases, reported a Boloko town in Bolomba safety zone in 21 January, who said.
This tumult is reduced to three deaths between children five years in the village in the morning, which month. Symptoms between fever and fatigue proceeds to haemorrhagic signs to nose and vomiting blood.
Reports indicated that the child ate the dead bat before.
In other cases in Boloko, and nearly Toward Village, with similar symptoms.
The one said link has been established between two clusters cases.
“We are looking at or is no other infection or whether it is some toxic agent. We have to be able to be in which one can bear,” said Jašarević, attention similar moved in the past.
Athon’s unknown cause reported the drc in December was ultimately identified as malaria.