Health officials said that dozens of people who died due to a mysterious epidemic in Africa may have been victims of chemical poisoning.
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More than a thousand people have been injured in this disease, which has not been interpreted yet, which led to the death of 60 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since late January, and officials rushed to investigate the discovery of the cause, warning that it may pose a “major threat to public health” where most victims die within only one day of symptoms.
In the new update, the World Health Organization said it had sent a team of experts and medical supplies, including testing tools, to the region, but it has not received details of their number.
The World Health Organization indicated that locally general health risks remain “moderate”, while they are considered “low” globally, and the symptoms of victims included fever, vomiting, diarrhea, body pain and extreme thirst.
Children also reported that they suffer from nose bleeding, blood vomiting, and continuous crying. The remote location of the villages hindered access to patients, while the weak health care infrastructure made it difficult to conduct surveillance and patient management.
This is the second time that an unknown disease has spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in less than 3 months, after more than 400 people were injured in late December, while later associated with malaria and malnutrition.
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The tests have yet proven that all of them are negative to the infection of the Ebola virus or other hemorrhagic fever diseases such as the Marburg virus, nicknamed “Eye Bleeding Virus”, which was found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before.
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The World Health Organization said that mysterious cases may be caused by “chemical poisoning” or “bacterial meningitis”, however, it is still not known specifically what led to this sudden outbreak or how the disease is spread, as investigations are still ongoing.
In her update, the World Health Organization said that there are many factors indicating an alternative to the outbreak of viral disease.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the officials concerned in the African country have launched an investigation to discover the cause of the disease, warning that it may pose a “major threat to public health” if it continues to spread without control.
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The United Nations said it is now investigating whether a chemical leakage or a group of meningitis, a serious infection that affects the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, may be responsible for the accident, and the researchers wrote that “the proposed hypotheses include chemical poisoning or the emergence of a group of bacterial meningitis quickly, against the background of the spread of malaria and other infectious diseases in the region,” and added that they are currently analyzing samples Environmental, including water, to “explore chemical causes”.
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Officials added that other common diseases in the region, such as malaria, may also play a role in contributing to disease and death.
The United Nations Agency explained that until February 25, the total number of patients with mysterious disease symptoms reached 1318 patients, half of the tests conducted positively for malaria, and by January 27, 2025, a total of 12 cases, including 8 deaths, were recorded in Buloko, and on February 9, a larger second outbreak was identified for the mysterious disease in the city of Boomi, about 180 A kilometer, and the two cities are about 300 km from the regional capital, Mabanda.
