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Barely released from its ninth epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever, the Democratic Republic of Congo faces a yet unknown disease that has killed about fifteen people in the east since early July, health sources said Monday. 19659002] »READ ALSO – Ebola: an epidemic difficult to control in the DRC
" During this month, we recorded 15 deaths out of 26 cases ", told AFP the doctor Alain Musondolya stationed in the commune of Mangina, 30 km southwest of Beni in North Kivu Province. "Patients come with vomiting, loose stools, nasal bleeding and vomiting of blood, we have no inputs to treat them and the staff is exposed to contamination," he added. "We have already sent the samples to Kinshasa, we are waiting for the result," he said.
Provincial Health Minister Martial Kambumbu said he was in the capital to follow the examination of the samples in the lab, and that he would decide when he would have the results. The acting mayor of Beni Modeste Bakwanamaha asked the people "to observe the rules of hygiene" and "not to manipulate the body of a person who died of this disease". Kinshasa officially announced last Tuesday the end of the ninth epidemic of Ebola virus disease on Congolese soil that has killed 33 people for 54 cases since its outbreak on May 8 in the north-west of the country.
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The DRC and its partners were prepared for the "worst case scenario" when the virus reached May 16 in the city of Mbandaka and its 1,2 million inhabitants, in connection with the capital Kinshasa via the Congo River. "At first there was a strong concern that the disease could spread to other parts of the DRC, and to neighboring countries," according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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