Fifteen people killed by "fever" in the Democratic Republic of Congo

As it is recovering from its ninth epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever, the Democratic Republic of Congo must to face a disease still unknown. According to the health authorities, this is a "fever", under badysis, which has killed about fifteen people out of 26 cases in the east of the country since early July 2018.

" 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, "said Dr. Alain Musondolya, a doctor stationed in Mangina, a rural commune 30 km southwest of Beni. Modeste Bakwanamaha, an official from Beni, asked the people "to observe the rules of hygiene" and "not to manipulate the body of a person who died of this disease."

An unidentified disease [19659005] In a statement, the ministry said that "samples were taken and are being sent to Kinshasa for badysis by the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB)."

July 24, 2018, Kinshasa officially announced the end of the ninth epidemic of Ebola virus disease on Congolese soil. It killed 33 people, for 54 cases, in the north-west of the country. Reported May 8, the virus had reached May 16 the city of Mbandaka and its 1.2 million inhabitants, in connection with the capital Kinshasa via the Congo River. The DRC and its partners then prepared for the "worst case scenario". "At first, there was a strong concern that the disease could spread to other parts of the DRC, and to neighboring countries," said the World Health Organization (WHO).