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Burkina / Tapoa: At least 25 people carried away by an unknown lightning disease
By AB. AIB - January 30, 20193253
Fada N'Gourma, Jan. 30, 2019 (AIB) - At least 25 people died of a lightning and unknown illness as of January 29, 2019, in the villages of Kp?gnanfoanou and Boguel (Tapoa). AIB from health and administrative sources.
In the space of three weeks, at least 25 people lost their lives in Kp?gnanfoanou and Boguel, two villages located about 100 km from Diapaga, in the province of Tapoa (East).
The victims, mostly young people, were swept away in less than 48 hours by an illness that spread like wildfire in the area.
The balance sheet could, unfortunately, get heavier over time, we are told by medical sources who say they are struggling to determine the source of what could be a start of an epidemic.
The disease is manifested in particular by chronic vomiting and a high fever.
The patients were admitted to surrounding health centers and, as a precaution, schools in both villages were closed after the death of a student from Kp?gnanfoanou, under the same circumstances.
Administrative authorities complained to the AIB because they were alerted only on January 29, 2019, while the evil has been raging for three weeks.
They deplore the attitude of people who have assimilated the situation to a supernatural phenomenon.
Burkina Information Agency
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25 deaths in the Tapoa: The meningitis track envisaged
Posted on 30 January 2019 by R?daction B24 135 0
As of January 29, 2019, 25 people lost their lives as a result of an evil not yet formally determined in the Tapoa, in the Eastern region, reports the Burkina News Agency. But the government is considering the track of meningitis and lassa fever.
25 people died in the villages of Kp?gnanfoanou and Boguel in the Tapoa, on January 29, 2019. The disease, not yet determined, overcomes the victims "in less than 48 hours," according to the IYB. It is manifested by vomiting and a high fever.
Meningitis or lassa fever
The evil, which has been raging for three weeks, has been assimilated by the people to a supernatural phenomenon, but health officials are trying to determine its nature. Schools in both villages were closed as a precautionary measure. The administrative authorities, they say they have not been informed since January 29, according to always the AIB.
Government spokesman Remis Dandjinou said on January 30, 2019, at the end of the cabinet, that the meningitis track is mainly considered. "It turns out, after examination, that there are risks that meningitis has affected these people," he says.
However, another possibility is under consideration, including lassa fever. "Studies are being done to find out exactly that it is not something else," adds Minister Dandjinou, adding that "the person who would be the first to have triggered the disease came from Benin" .
Remis Dandjinou urged the population to be cautious and to refer immediately to health facilities, especially in case of persistent fever. He announces that measures are being implemented to contain the evil.
Burkina 24
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