DRC: Suspected haemorrhagic fever kills three in Equateur Province
Three people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Equateur Province have died from what is suspected to be haemorrhagic fever, according to medical sources.
KINSHASA, 13 June 2008 (IRIN) - Samples collected in Boende, 300km east of Bandaka, have been sent to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in the USA, to determine whether or not the disease is viral.
According to its spokesman, Eugene Kabambi, the UN's World Health Organization has sent a team of experts to Boende together with government doctors.
“The third death, that of a child, was reported on Wednesday” 11 June, said Jacques Mokange, the province's medical inspector.
“The first death was recorded on 29 May after the patient presented with fever, haemorrhage and finally bleeding from all the orifices in his body,” added Mokange, who declined to speculate about whether the deaths were caused by one of the Ebola group of viruses, the fatality rates of which range from 50 to 90 percent.
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