In the northwest region of Congo, a puzzling outbreak has claimed the lives of more than 50 people, doctors in the area and the World Health Organization reported.
The medical director of the hospital in Bikoro, Serge Ngalebat, who is also a regional monitoring center, reported that the time interval between the onset of symptoms and death was 48 hours in most cases, which raises alarm.
The latest spike of Bolezn began on January 21 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 419 cases recorded, including 53 fatal outcomes. According to the report from the WHO office in Africa, the first case occurred in the Boloko area when three children consumed a flying mouse as food and left life 48 hours after the appearance of symptoms of hemorrhagic fever.
The World Health Organization noted that after the beginning of the second outbreak of the puzzling outbreak, 13 samples were sent to the Institute of National Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, for testing.
