Congo Mysterious Disease “Research deepens” as spreading a deadly, unidentified disease, which says

The World Health Organization announced on Thursday that his “investigation” deepened “to a mysterious disease suspected of killing more than 60 people in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo in the last five weeks, warning that he is still expanding.

Who said in statement On Thursday that she, together with healthcare officials in Congo, “conducted further investigations to determine the cause of another set of diseases and deaths in the community” in the Equateur province, which for the third time this year this year’s menu for the supervision of illnesses have identified the increase in diseases and deaths in the region.

“The latest cluster took place in the Barankus health zone, where last week 141 additional persons became ill, without death,” the Global Health Agency of the United Nations said. “In the same health zone, 158 cases and 58 deaths were reported in the same health zone earlier in February. In January, Bulamba Health Zone reported on 12 people who became ill, including 8 deaths.”

The office of Africa WHO earned earlier this week That the first epidemic was among several children who ate a baton and then died within 48 hours after experiencing symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, similar to those caused by Ebola or Marburg viruses.

Death happened in one village, Boloko and influenced people of all ages, however, teenagers and young adults seemed to be most beautiful.

Concern about the influence of Trump’s help on the front line

When numerous inexplicable cases of illnesses, a team of health officers and international “hunters on viruses” immediately enters the epidemic research, determine who was the first case – “zero patient” – and work to identify, contain and treat the disease.

But these teams recently covered Trump’s administration Reduction of American foreign aidsThe health official who works in the region said on Thursday CBS News.

During the first meeting of Mr. Trump’s second administration cabinet on Wednesday, said Non-Abinet member Elon Musk Its Doge Dogenered Department of Efficiency wrongly canceled Ebole programs as They were targeting USAID.

“We all make mistakes, but when we make a mistake, we repair it quickly, and in the case of USAID, we accidentally canceled, very briefly, Ebola, ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola prevention, so we have renewed it and there was no interruption,” Musk said.

However, an American health official who spoke with CBS News challenged that help had been renewed. They said that locally trained healthcare professionals were not paid in some hot zones of infectious diseases in Africa and some were completely discarded due to a reduction in USAIDs.

The US has long been the biggest international donor in the Health Sector of the Congo, and funding has helped train the epidemiologist to work off fieldwork that identifies and controls the epidemic of the disease. It is unclear that the decrease in President Trump’s funding will affect teams on the ground, but among health officers is wide care, and one virus hunter said CBS News that the region faces a “perfect storm” for the potential spread of infectious diseases, including possible new ones.

A race to recognize a mysterious illness

In northern Congo, health officers seek for anyone who has a general illness or illness that corresponds to the “broad definition of a case” that includes fever, cold, headache, nose bleeding, coughing, vomiting, diarrhea, stiff neck and pain in the muscles or joints in the joints

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

The test results published on February 13 showed that the first cases were not Ebola or Marburg, but half of the samples tested positively to malaria. Early samples of suspicious cases, health officials say, “are not sustainable”, so the testing has removed the diagnostic procedure again. WHO officials conduct further tests, also view the possibility of meningitis and testing of food, water and other environmental patterns from the affected region.

Officials say they seek unusual patterns in cases of mysterious disease by increasing the supervision of diseases and treatment of other diseases such as malaria, meningitis and typhoid.

The regional healthcare team arrived at the Basankkus health zone, which was about 110 miles from the Bulamb zone on February 16, and six days later he was joined by a national team for a quick response from the Ministry of Health and two who are epidemiologists. They collected blood and urine samples and took oral and nasal swabs for testing in an effort to identify the disease.

“These diseases do not know the boundaries.”

The distance of the affected areas and limited national health care systems and bad roads and telephone infrastructure contributed to the challenges of diagnosing and the contrary of the disease.

About 1000 miles away, in the far east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a rebel group M23 – supported by Rwanda, according to the United Nations – has trapped by large parts of the territory In the region of rich minerals, pushing refugees into camps and add the burden of the already combat health sector.

Sarah Olsen, director of health research in the Society for the Preservation of Wildlife, said CBS News on Thursday that epidemics of Ebola, Marburg and other diseases, such as still self-unidentified people who killed people in North Congo, became a new normal, adding an invitation to the global community to be ready to answer.

“The reality is that in recent months there have been multiple epidemics of Ebola, and now that mysterious disease is super dangerous in Congo. We just don’t know enough,” she said, adding, “These diseases do not know the boundaries. Now is the time to increase financing and alertness before one of these diseases in the big city and begins with a new panden.”