Burundi - Unidentified disease in Kirundo and Muyinga

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No cases of Ebola or Marburg virus disease on national territory

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Mar 27, 2023

BUJUMBURA, March 24 (ABP) – The Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS released on Friday, March 24, 2023, a press release to inform the Burundian population that there are no cases of Ebola or Marburg virus disease in the national territory.

According to this statement, on March 21, 2023, Giteranyi Hospital admitted an 18-year-old student residing in Nonwe, Murambo hill of Muyinga province, Giteranyi health district, who presented with bloody vomiting, bloody diarrhea, bleeding from the nose and at the injection site. He died the same day and a dignified and secure burial was reserved for him.

As the United Republic of Tanzania had just declared Marburg virus fever in the Kagera region near the locality of Giteranyi, we read in this press release, the ministry having public health in its attributions urgently dispatched a team to investigate the suspected case of Ebola or Marburg virus disease. The results of the analyzes carried out at the INSP national laboratory revealed that the deceased had neither Marburg virus disease nor Ebola and investigations are continuing to identify the cause of death.

However, the statement said, considering the movement of populations between Burundi and Tanzania, Burundians are called upon to be vigilant and to respect barrier measures, in particular washing their hands frequently with clean water and soap, avoiding unprotected contact with bodily fluids, avoiding the consumption of wild animals and avoiding touching dead bodies whose causes of death are unknown.

Regarding the symptoms of Marburg virus disease, it is manifested by fever, vomiting, bleeding and kidney failure. The Ministry of Public Health reassures the population through this press release that all measures are taken to detect any case of hemorrhagic fever and asks the population to report to the nearest health facility as soon as these symptoms appear.

https://abpinfo.bi/2023/03/27/aucun...-ebola-ou-marburg-sur-le-territoire-national/

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Ministry of Public Health Burundi (MSPLS) @mspls_bdi

The @mspls_bdi released a press release on 24.03.2023 through which he reassures the population that there is no case of Ebola virus fever or Marbourg virus on Burundian territory. Nevertheless, the @mspls_bdi calls for vigilance and community monitoring.

11:50 AM · Mar 24, 2023

 

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Kirundo-Muyinga: a mysterious disease with symptoms resembling those of the Ebola virus appears

March 27, 2023 Eric Irambona Health

An as yet unidentified disease killed three people in three days in the commune of Gitobe in the province of Kirundo and in the commune of Butihinda in the province of Muyinga (north-eastern Burundi). Symptoms developed by patients suffering from this disease resemble those of Ebola hemorrhagic virus or Marburg virus disease. In the case of Kirundo, the governor and the provincial doctor are awaiting the results of samples taken by specialists from the INSP (National Institute of Public Health) to decide. The ministry in charge of health has already confirmed for that of Muyinga that it is neither the Marburg virus disease nor Ebola. (SOS Media Burundi)

This disease, not yet identified but having signs similar to those of Ebola, has just claimed the lives of two people in the commune of Gitobe. Both people died within 24 hours of showing the signs. All the patients come from the same Migwa hill, in the Baziro area.

According to witnesses on the spot, "the symptoms include abdominal pain, nasal bleeding which increases after death, acute headaches, high fever, vomiting and dizziness".

This disease kills very quickly, noted a nurse interviewed by SOS Media Burundi.

“It is a disease that kills quickly. Within 24 hours, the infected person dies. It's terrible, we are all waiting for death," said a panicked nurse from the Migwa health center in the Gashoho health district in Muyinga province where patients were sent, including two women who died there. .

When the population of Baziro wanted to bring the third person there, the population of Migwa blocked the entrances, fearing the spread of the disease.

For the moment no one can leave the area of Baziro which, it seems, has been confined.

Samples were taken by the INSP to identify which disease it is.

But until now the disease is not yet detected, according to doctors.

In the morning of Friday, the governor of Kirundo, Albert Hatungimana, accompanied by the provincial doctor, carried out a raid in the commune of Gitobe, but they made no forecast.

"We are awaiting the results of the swabs," a member of the governor's cabinet said.

The population is worried because, she says, "So far no real prevention strategy against this disease has been communicated".

“Apart from washing your hands and avoiding greeting each other, there are no strict measures, which can promote contamination,” residents insisted.

Note that at Kirundo hospital, the first case was also admitted on Friday evening. In the commune of Ntega (same province), people with the same symptoms were reported on the same Friday evening.

The population of the urban center of Kirundo lives in panic fear. She asks the government to declare the epidemic so that there is a rapid intervention.

Another case was recorded in Giteranyi commune, Muyinga province (neighboring Kirundo). A student from Kobero Basic School not far from the border with Tanzania died of this disease last Thursday.

Tanzania declared a Marburg virus epidemic on March 21. A cousin of Ebola, this “filovirus” causes high fevers accompanied by virulent haemorrhages. So far, there is no vaccine or antiviral treatment for this disease, which can also attack primates. It is suspected that it is the Marburg virus which has spread in the Burundian provinces bordering Tanzania, the epidemic having been detected in the Kagera region in the north-west of Tanzania not far from Burundi and Rwanda .

https://www.sosmediasburundi.org/20...nt-a-ceux-du-virus-ebola-fait-son-apparition/

 

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Burundi: 4 people have already died from a disease with symptoms similar to Ebola

27-03-2023

Since the first day of this week, four people have died of an unknown disease in the provinces of Muyinga and Kirundo in the northern part of Burundi.

Apostates have symptoms of Ebola. The first tests carried out by the National Public Health Agency (INSP) showed that there is no Ebola virus present, but there are other tests waiting for them.

Two of the dead lived on the same mountain of Migwa in Baziro zone in Gitobe municipality, Kirundo province in the north of Burundi. The first patient who died was found on Monday and died the next day on the 21st of the third month of 2023. She was a 42-year-old woman who was arrested on Monday, according to the public health officials. where in Gitobe they confirm it. The illness caught him because he was arrested at nine o'clock in the evening and died at ten o'clock the next morning, as confirmed by Voice of America sources as well as those responsible for human health in the area.

On Thursday, two people died. Umukenezi is 47 years old from the same place in Baziro and a student of the school in Butihinda municipality in Muyinga district bordering Urubibe and Kirundo in the north.

The first one was caught while he was leaving to pick vegetables. Between 11:00 and 12:42 on Thursday evening, he had passed away after bleeding profusely from his nose and mouth, as confirmed by those present.

On the same Thursday, the child of the school principal of Kobero in Butihina municipality near the border of Tanzania died after being brought to the hospital of Giteranyi municipality in the same province. The Ministry of Public Health said that the deceased was 18 years old. He had been arrested, cut blood, and had a nosebleed.

After the death of the woman from Kobero, a number of people were afraid in Muyinga and especially those who are very close to Kobero, which borders Burundi and Tanzania. published in Tanzania. The Ministry of Public Health later issued a statement informing that the suspicions were not true.

"Because the neighboring country of Tanzania had announced that it was due to the death of the Marburg virus, the Ministry of Human Health and the fight against AIDS hastened to send farmers to take measurements of the man who abandoned God and those around him. According to the results provided by the INSP, the results showed that he did not have Marburg virus or Ebola virus disease", said the statement signed by the undersecretary of the Ministry of Human Health published on the 22nd of this month.

In Gitobe, worshipers who are caught suffer from pain in the stomach and groin, bleeding from the nostrils, especially when breathing, they eat a lot in the head, they have too much moisture and they don't get tired and they get weak and fall to the ground. In the capital hospital of Kirundo, on Friday night, another patient was found with the same symptoms as the sources of the Voice of America told us. In addition to another person from Baziro, a 23-year-old man was arrested on Thursday at one o'clock in the morning and was taken to the Migwa clinic in the municipality of Gashoho in the neighboring district of Muyinga. Even in the municipality of Ntega in Kirundo province, the Voice of America learned that there are other patients with these symptoms that have already been found there.

The Voice of America news was given by the citizens who did not appreciate that their identity was revealed, that the citizens of Migwa denied that there are other patients who say that they are afraid of contracting the disease. Even some of the nurses say that what they saw scared them. “It is a deadly disease. Within 24 hours, you will leave the world. It's scary and everyone is scared now", said one of the nurses.

Some citizens are asking the Government to take the problem of this disease into their hands and send tests to countries and laboratories that have more capacity and expertise than INSP, which is in charge of human health in Burundi. The reason why they are so afraid is that the region they are in in the north-west of Burundi is not far from the Kagera region in the north-west of Tanzania, the Tanzanian Minister of Health, Ummy Mwalimu announced on the 21st of this month that the disease The Marburg outbreak has already killed 5 people, 3 of whom are on death row.

"There is a team of experts from the Ministry of Health and WHO have visited Gitobe and Kirundo to see the situation. We will know for sure the truth once they take the measurements and bring them to the INSP', is the source of the Voice of America in the Ministry of Human Health told us.

The Marburg virus is rare and can also infect marsupials, monkeys, and monkeys. So far, there is no cure or cure for the disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

In Kirundo, except that there are measures to prevent people from touching their hands and they are asked to keep washing with soap and clean water, there are no other measures announced by the armed forces and people's health.

This unknown disease appeared after the Government announced on the 17th of this third month that there was an outbreak of mumps, 30 years after the disease was eradicated in Burundi, WHO statistics show that 90% of children are breastfed. .


https://www.radiyoyacuvoa.com/a/7023703.html

 

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A fatal Ebola or Marburg illness is typically a week or two in duration, with death occurring at the end. If people are taking ill and dying within an hour or two, that suggests a possible poisoning.

 

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Rpa Voice of the Citizen
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A second person has died in Muyinga County from a disease with Ebola-like symptoms.
Citizens of Giteranyi municipality where he lives are asking the authorities to take measures to protect them.

https://www.facebook.com/RpaIjwiryAbanyagihugu/

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A 2-year-old person has died in Muyinga County from a disease with Ebola-like symptoms

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Citizens of the Giteranyi municipality where he lives are asking the authorities to take measures to protect them.

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Just translated some of the article on https://www.onlinetranslationpro.com/kinyarwanda-to-english-translation and it appears they are talking about the date of authorities learning of the symptomatic people, not the onset date. Online translation of this language seems sketchy st best.