Senegal alert for an unknown disease – News

Among the manifestations that appear on their body are the headache, fever, red eyes and dry lips. The skin disease appears to be toxic rather than contagious.

Apparently the condition was brought on by people who were at sea to work in the fishery.

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Ousmane Gueye, National Director of Health Information and Education, told media Reuters that those infected have been quarantined.

It is a dermatitis associated with an infectious disease, […] we continue our studies and we hope to find out soon what it is

They suspect that the situation is related to water, therefore, the Senegalese navy will carry out studies on the fluid.