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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...
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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