There’s a new flu-like disease killing people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the last month, with 71 confirmed deaths from Nov. 10-25. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough, and anemia. The Africa CDC Director General Jean Kaseya said: “There are so many things we don’t know” about the disease, including whether it is infectious and how it is transmitted. “First diagnostics are leading us to think it is a respiratory disease. But we need to wait for the laboratory results.”
The D.R. Congo’s Health Minister Roger Kamba gave an update today, saying that 44 people had died in the southern Kwango province before getting to a hospital, and 27 more had died in hospitals—17 as a result of respiratory problems and another 10 due to the lack of blood transfusion.
