Unidentified disease kills 15 in Tanzania

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Unidentified disease kills 15 in Tanzania
More than 50 hospitalized in southern Mbeya city for vomiting blood
Kizito Makoye | 07.02.2021

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania

At least fifteen people died and more than 50 others were hospitalized in southern Tanzania due to an unidentified infection that caused many to experience nausea and vomit blood, health officials said on Sunday.

Felista Kisandu, the chief medical officer in the remote Chunya district of Mbeya city, said a team of medical experts have been deployed to clinically assess the patients and investigate the cause of the outbreak.

“This problem has not been widespread, it has happened in just a single administrative ward of Ifumbo where people vomit blood and die when they get to the hospital late,” she said.

The cause of their illness has not been identified yet, but Tanzania’s Health Ministry has ruled out an outbreak.

Initial clinical examination revealed the patients, mostly men, experienced stomach ulcers and liver disease, Kisandu said...

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Tanzania suspends health official over epidemic claim
Official earlier claimed unidentified infection plagued administrative ward in country’s south
Kizito Makoye | 08.02.2021
Tanzania suspends health official over epidemic claim

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania

Tanzania’s government has suspended a health expert for allegedly violating the law by issuing a statement on an alleged epidemic in the country's south.

Doroth Gwajima, Tanzania’s health minister, instructed relevant authorities to suspend Felista Kisandu, the chief medical officer in the Chunya district of Mbeya Region.

The minister said Kisandu had contravened the Public Health Act of 2019 that provides guidelines on announcing the emergence of disease outbreaks.

On Sunday, Kisandu had said an unidentified infection, which caused people to experience nausea and vomit blood, plagued a single administrative ward of Ifumbo, triggering panic among local residents...