The relatively short time between the beginning of symptoms and death is concerning.
Medical professionals have expressed apprehensions about a condition that has not yet been identified and has the potential to kill within hours.
In the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that an unknown disease that causes symptoms in a short amount of time has been responsible for more than fifty deaths.
In the African nation, healthcare professionals from the World Health Organization (WHO) have treated hundreds of patients and discovered that there is a short period of time, two days, between the development of symptoms and the deaths that occur.
“Really worrying” is what Serge Ngalebato, the medical director of the Bikoro Hospital, which is a regional monitoring center, said in a statement after the alarming discovery.
According to the medical personnel, the relatively short window of time between the onset of symptoms and death is unsettling.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), another virus may have sprung from animals and spread to people, which could explain the current outbreak.
419 cases have been reported from the beginning of the outbreak on January 21st until the middle of February.
With over 400 cases reported since then, 53 have died, for a fatality rate of about 12.49%—quite high when compared to disorders like COVID-19, which has a rate of about 3.14%.
After three children in the town of Boloko ingested a bat and died within 48 hours after experiencing hemorrhagic fever symptoms, the first outbreak occurred, according to the WHO’s Africa division.
Thirteen cases have been sent for testing to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the capital of the country, following the second breakout of the mystery disease in the town of Bomate on February 9.