Congo of mysterious diseases “Investigation is deepened” as a deadly, unidentified disease expands, who says

The World Health Organization told Thursday that the “investigation is deepened” into a mysterical disease suspected of killing more than 60 people in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo in the last five weeks, warning to continue to expand.

Who said in statement Thursday, together with Kong health officials, “performing further investigations to determine the reason for the second cluster of the disease and the death of the community” in the equalized province, marking the third time this year of the disease and deaths in the region.

“The latest cluster happened in the base zone, where 141 additional people were sick last, without reported deaths,” said the United Nations Global Agency. “In the same health zone, 158 cases and 58 deaths were reported in the same health zone in February. In January, the health zone of Bolamba reported 12 people who were ill, including 8 deaths.”

The Who is African Office said earlier this week That the first epidemic was among several children who were eaten by a bat, and then died within 48 hours after they experienced symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, similar to those caused by ebola or Marburg viruses.

Deaths happened in one village, Boloko and affected people of all ages, however, teenagers and young adults accounted for the most sensitive.

Concerns about the front line the impact of Trump’s help

When numerous inexplicable cases of diseases are opposed, the team of health officials and international “hunters” are going to explore the outbreak, determine who was the first case – “I identify the patient”, containing and treating diseases.

But these teams have kicked out the recent Trump administration Reducing the American side of aidThe health officer working in the region told CBS news on Thursday.

During the first meeting of the Cabinet of the Second Administration of Mr. Trump on Wednesday, the member of the Cabinet Elon Musk said officials with Efficiency-oriented Dose Department they have wrongly canceled ebola programs as They target USAID.

“We All Make Mistakes, But When We Make Mistakes, We Accidentally Canced, Very Briefly, Ebola, Ebola Prevention. I Think We All Want Ebola Prevention, So We Restent It and There Was No Interruption,” Musk Said.

An American health official discussed with the news about the CBS challenged, however, the help was restored. They said that locally trained health workers in some of the infectious diseases of the hot zone in Africa were not paid, and some were completely rejected due to USAID reduction.

The United States is already the largest international donor for the Congo Health Sector, and the funds helped in the training of epidemiologists to work field work that identifies and controls the disease epidemic. It is unclear how to reset the Trump assets, but there is widespread concern among health officials, and one virus hunting, the region faces the “perfect storm” for potentially spreading infectious diseases, including possible new ones.

A race to identify a mysterious disease

In northern Congo, health officials are looking for general diseases or disease that corresponds to “wide definition” that includes awful, colds, headache, bleeding, vomiting, diarrhea, stiffness and pain in muscles or color

By 19. February, which said 943 people with such symptoms were identified, including 52 who died.

The test results published 13. February showed that the first cases were Ebola or Marburg, but half of the samples tested positively for malaria. Earlier samples of suspicious cases, health officials, were not “not sustainable”, so that the diagnostic process is rejoilled. Officials who perform further tests, also look at the possibility of meningitis and testing food, water and other environmental samples from the affected region.

Officials say they are looking for unusual forms in cases of mysterious disease by increasing and supervising diseases and treatments for other diseases such as malaria, meningitis and tifush fever.

The regional health team arrived in the base of the health zone, about 110 miles from the Bolamba Zone, 16. February, and joined him six days later the National Reference Team from the Ministry of Health and two epidemiologists. They collected blood and urine samples and taking oral and nasal breaches for testing in an effort to identify the disease.

“These diseases don’t know the boundaries.”

The distance affected areas and limited national health system of Congo and bad roads and telephone infrastructure have contributed to the challenges of diagnosing and compiling the disease.

About 1000 miles away, in the Far East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the M23 Bunga Group – which supports Rwanda, according to the United Nations – has Trapped by large fruits of the territory In the region of rich minerals, pushing refugees into camps and adds the load of already combat health sector.

Sarah Olsen, director of the Wildlife Conservation, told the news of CBS on Thursday that Ebola, Marburg and other diseases were still unidentified in northern Congo, adding the call that the global community is ready for an answer.

“The reality was more of an ebol outbreak in the last months, and now this mysterious disease in Congo is super dangerous.” It is that we do not know the warning: “This is the time to increase the vigilance before one of these diseases end in the big city center and starts a new pandemic.”