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After Mpox (Clade 1 and 2 outbreaks), Ebola now we have a new respiratory illness. No doubt we will see claims that it is the product of a laboratory accident, been developed by Bill Gates etc.
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After Mpox (Clade 1 and 2 outbreaks), Ebola now we have a new respiratory illness. No doubt we will see claims that it is the product of a laboratory accident, been developed by Bill Gates etc.

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An unknown disease killed 143 people in a south-west province of Democratic Republic of the Congo in November [2024], local authorities told Reuters. Infected people had influenza-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches, Remy Saki, the deputy governor of Kwango province, and Apollinaire Yumba, the provincial minister of health, said on Monday [2 Dec 2024]. A medical team has been sent to the Panzi health zone to collect samples and carry out an analysis to identify the disease.
The situation was extremely worrying as the number of infected people continued to rise, said Cephorien Manzanza, a civil society leader. "Panzi is a rural health zone, so there is a problem with the supply of medicines," Manzanza said.
Sick people died in their own homes for lack of treatment, Saki and Yumba said. A local epidemiologist said women and children were the most seriously affected by the disease.

Lab results expected soon in DR Congo's mystery outbreak
Results from lab tests on samples from patients with flulike symptoms in an unknown illness outbreak in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are expected within the next 24 to 48 hours, an official from the country's health ministry said today.
Dieudonne Mwamba, MD, PhD, director-general of the National Institute of Public Health within the DRC's health ministry, said during an Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) briefing that the outbreak began on October 24 in Panzi Health Zone in a remote landlocked area of Kwango province, which is in southwestern DRC about 400 miles from Kinshasa, the country's capital. Africa CDC officials said they are sending a team to the area, which includes infection prevention and control experts and epidemiologists.
Mwamba said national authorities didn't learn of the outbreak until early December—6 weeks later—and that officials have activated emergency operations in response. The DRC is grappling with multiple disease outbreaks and is the epicenter of Africa's mpox outbreaks.
Flulike symptoms include fever, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulty, and anemia. So far 376 cases have been reported, 79 of them fatal, according to Africa CDC's total.