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GENEVA (Reuters) – A deadly type of plague has spread on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Congo and several people are said to have died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. .
The organization commended health workers in Uganda for their vigilance and readiness for the suspected outbreak of pulmonary plague, which according to the organization usually leads to death unless it is detected and confirmed. treated with antibiotics in its infancy.
The Ministry of Health said in a report that the Ugandan Ministry of Health reported on March 5 two suspected cases of infection in the Zombo region, after a 35-year-old woman and a relative of 23 years old died of the same symptoms.
Subsequent investigations revealed that the deceased was living in the village of Atongoli, Congo, Ituri, and that her four-year-old son had died a few days earlier. When her relatives found her sick on the day of her son's burial, they took her to Uganda for treatment.
His sister's suspicions about the spread of the plague were triggered by a preliminary analysis of the disease.
The authorities estimated that 55 people, including 11 health workers and other participants in the funeral of women, presented a serious risk of transmission and follow-up.
Three other people reportedly died of similar symptoms in Congo and local authorities are investigating, said the WHO.
According to the FAO, pneumonia is endemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and Peru.
The Congolese authorities are already facing a major epidemic of Ebola.
Yarsine typhoid, which is commonly found in small mammals and fleas, causes pneumonia. People get sick from flea bites, dangerous mixtures of body fluids, polluted substances or inhalation of an aerosol from someone with lung plague.
(Reuters)
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