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​DRC: Unknown disease kills more than 100 people in three weeks in Kahemba, Kwango Province

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DRC: Unknown disease kills 100 in southwestern

-The disease has been detected in people who have been in the bush for picking caterpillars.

Home> Africa 04.10.2018 Nadia Chahed

AA / Kinshasa / Pascal Mulegwa

Unknown illness, high fever, headache, vomiting and diarrhea, killed more than 100 people in three weeks in Kahemba in southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Anadolu learned Thursday, from a local official source.

"Our structures have recorded during the last three weeks a wave of exceptional deaths in Kahemba," said Anadolu Thursday Dr. Gauthier Kibangu Minister of Public Health in the province of Kwango to which the city of Kahemba.

Evoking a hundred deaths, he said that "the disease was detected in people who have been in the bush for picking caterpillars."

Track samples were sent to Kinshasa to "demystify" this epidemic, he added.

"This mysterious disease troubles the daily life of the people of Kahemba where the caterpillars are a staple food," said Anadolu Giscard Gibemba, rapporteur of the local civil society.
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https://www.aa.com.tr/fr/afrique/rd...e-centaine-de-morts-dans-le-sud-ouest/1272810
 
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