Mauritania - A mysterious fever kills four people in Tagant

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10-03-2015 1:51 p.m. -

URGENT: A mysterious fever kills four people in Tagant

Rapide Info - A mysterious new disease which appeared inside the country has killed four people, including three in the localities of Gdernitt and Taoujavet under the commune of El Wahatt in the wilaya of Tagant.

Two young sisters died of this fever not yet diagnosed due to the lack of equipped health services in the affected area . A fourth child has recently died as a result of the same fever in the locality of Nimlane.

The fever has symptoms similar to those of malaria, according to information from the affected areas.

http://www.cridem.org/C_Info.php?article=668198

 

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I don't like to speculate but Malaria or Typhoid are very likely and there have been large Typhoid outbreaks in Mauritania in the recent past. This is a very remote, arid area but are close to roads and only about 500 km from an active Ebola outbreak in Guinea and there have been Ebola cases in Mali that were closer than that. In any case, let's hope it is contained before more people suffer.

 

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I would also add the possibility of Rift Valley Fever, something that has reported as a mystery disease from Mauritania in the past:

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum...-rift-valley-fever-in-aoujeft-kills-17-people