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    Mystery disease identified as severe malaria - DRC health ministry

    Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry said on Tuesday, 17 December, that a previously unidentified disease circulating in the country's Panzi health zone is a severe form of malaria.
    By Yassin Kombi and Anait Miridzhanian
    18 Dec 2024
    An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters, 23 November 2015. Reuters/Jim Gathany/CDC/Handout via Reuters/File Photo
    An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters, 23 November 2015. Reuters/Jim Gathany/CDC/Handout via Reuters/File Photo

    Earlier this month, local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the southwestern Kwango province in November.

    "The mystery has finally been solved. It's a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness... and weakened by malnutrition," the health ministry said in a statement.

    It also said that 592 cases had been reported since October with a fatality rate of 6.2%.

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    Source: Reuters

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    About Yassin Kombi and Anait Miridzhanian

    Reporting by Yassin Kombi; writing by Anait Miridzhanian; editing by Bate Felix
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