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HEALTH
A mysterious disease killed four people in Ghana
ACCRA (Xinhua) - At least four people have died of a mysterious illness last week in the gold town of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region in the south-central Ghana, about 257 km northwest of Accra.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | 0:36 UTC
Fourteen cases of the disease have been reported so far and the survivors reported receiving medical care at the government hospital in the capital.
Chief Administrative Officer of Health in the region, Dr. Akwasi Amankwah, said to reporters Tuesday that his team had not yet been able to determine exactly what the illness is or how it was said in New Nsuta Estates a first class residential area of Obuasi.
He did not exclude the possibility that the disease may have meningitis, had been spread by one of the patients who would have caught one way or another.
Dr. Amankwah assured the residents of the municipality and surrounding his directorate would conduct additional tests to determine whether this is a cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM).
"This does not mean that meningitis is a terrifying disease," he added.
The Director of Health, however, said that if tests confirmed that this was the MCS team vaccinate everyone in the affected area.
He called on all people with symptoms to present themselves to the hospital early enough to be treated.
In total 1659 cases of MCS with 281 deaths were registered here in West Africa since the 1990s, 70% during the month of February 1997.
The home erupted in the district of Mamprusi East and Bawku East before spreading to four other districts in the Upper West Region, about 740 km north of the capital.
MCS Meningitis is an inflammation of protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively known as the meninges.
This inflammation can be caused by an infection of viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, and more rarely by some drugs.
It can be fatal because of the proximity between inflammation and brain or spinal cord, which is why it is classified as a medical emergency.
Its most common symptoms are headaches and stiffness of stroke associated with states of fever, confusion or altered consciousness, vomiting and inability to bear the light (photophobia) or loud noises (phonophobia).
Sometimes, especially in young children, symptoms appear as unclear as states of irritability or fatigue.
French to English translation
HEALTH
A mysterious disease killed four people in Ghana
ACCRA (Xinhua) - At least four people have died of a mysterious illness last week in the gold town of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region in the south-central Ghana, about 257 km northwest of Accra.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | 0:36 UTC
Fourteen cases of the disease have been reported so far and the survivors reported receiving medical care at the government hospital in the capital.
Chief Administrative Officer of Health in the region, Dr. Akwasi Amankwah, said to reporters Tuesday that his team had not yet been able to determine exactly what the illness is or how it was said in New Nsuta Estates a first class residential area of Obuasi.
He did not exclude the possibility that the disease may have meningitis, had been spread by one of the patients who would have caught one way or another.
Dr. Amankwah assured the residents of the municipality and surrounding his directorate would conduct additional tests to determine whether this is a cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM).
"This does not mean that meningitis is a terrifying disease," he added.
The Director of Health, however, said that if tests confirmed that this was the MCS team vaccinate everyone in the affected area.
He called on all people with symptoms to present themselves to the hospital early enough to be treated.
In total 1659 cases of MCS with 281 deaths were registered here in West Africa since the 1990s, 70% during the month of February 1997.
The home erupted in the district of Mamprusi East and Bawku East before spreading to four other districts in the Upper West Region, about 740 km north of the capital.
MCS Meningitis is an inflammation of protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively known as the meninges.
This inflammation can be caused by an infection of viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, and more rarely by some drugs.
It can be fatal because of the proximity between inflammation and brain or spinal cord, which is why it is classified as a medical emergency.
Its most common symptoms are headaches and stiffness of stroke associated with states of fever, confusion or altered consciousness, vomiting and inability to bear the light (photophobia) or loud noises (phonophobia).
Sometimes, especially in young children, symptoms appear as unclear as states of irritability or fatigue.
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