A mysteric disease killed 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) only a few hours after the symptoms started.
The World Health Organization and Doctors in the DRC said that the time between the beginning of symptoms and death was in most cases only 48 hours.
Officials believe that the outbreak began on January 21 and 419 cases were recorded from Monday. This includes 53 deaths.
According to the WHOs Africa office, the first outbreak in the city of Boloko started after three children had eaten a bat.
They died 48 hours after developing symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, a group of diseases characterized by fever, bleeding, headache, joint pain and other symptoms.
“That is really worries,” Serge Ngalebato, medical director of the Bikoro Hospital in the DRC, to The Associated Press, referred to how quickly they died.
Ebola is one of the most notorious causes of hemorrhagic fever.
WHO officials also warned that the number of outbreaks of diseases that jump from animals to people – such as by eating them – has risen more than 60 percent in Africa in the past decade.
The World Health Organization warned this week that a mysterious disease killed 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) within a few hours after the start of the symptoms. Shown are Congolese officials and the officials of the World Health Organization during a training against the Ebola virus in 2018
Officials did not speculate what the mysterious disease can be.
After the second outbreak of the mysterious disease started on 9 February in the city of Bomate, officials sent Samplers from 13 cases for testing.
All samples have been negative for Ebola and other hemorrhagic diseases such as Marburg, although some samples were positive for malaria.
The outbreaks come only a few months after mystery has destroyed 'Disease X' the DRC and killed 143 people last year. Civil servants later found that it was probably a serious form of breathing of malaria.
The CDC told DailyMail.com when the international risk of the disease was 'low'.
Malaria is extremely found in the DRC, affects 30 million inhabitants and killing nearly 25,000 in 2022, according to charity Malaria Observatory.
That year, the DRC registered the second most malaria cases in the world behind Nigeria.
The nation is also struggling with an outbreak of Mpox. The WHO estimates that there have been more than 47,000 suspected cases and so far more than 1,000 suspected deaths.
