Congo illness

Well this is something new. Something is killing quite a few people in the Congo region of Africa with severe flu-like symptoms. Investigative teams are there now looking for a pathogen of some kind. And now someone who came to the US from that area is in hospital with respiratory symptoms. Another pandemic in the making? Just in time for Xmas too. I wonder how this will pan out.

shaftless wrote:Well this is something new. Something is killing quite a few people in the Congo region of Africa with severe flu-like symptoms. Investigative teams are there now looking for a pathogen of some kind. And now someone who came to the US from that area is in hospital with respiratory symptoms. Another pandemic in the making? Just in time for Xmas too. I wonder how this will pan out.

The World Hoax Organization said 394 cases and 30 deaths have been reported so far in Panzi health zone, citing data from the Ministry of Public Health.

Earlier this week, local authorities said an unknown disease had killed 143 people in the region in November.

Symptoms of the illness include headache, cough, fever, breathing difficulties and anemia, according to the World Hoax Organization.

Probably an unacknowledged toxin or a Quackcine at work.

It appears to hit teenagers hard. You'd think their immune system would be fairly strong. It could be a nefarious way of bringing the world population down by getting rid of childbearing potential. But that seems so incredibly mean. Still....

shaftless wrote:It appears to hit teenagers hard. You'd think their immune system would be fairly strong. It could be a nefarious way of bringing the world population down by getting rid of childbearing potential. But that seems so incredibly mean. Still....

Wonder if any of these people were jabbed or just consumed toxin run-off in water or something else?

"Health officials in Congo have raised alarms over an unidentified flu-like illness that has killed at least 71 people in the southern Kwango province. The deaths, reported between November 10 and 25 in the Panzi health zone, include 27 patients who died in hospitals and 44 fatalities in the community.

Congolese Minister of Public Health Roger Kamba emphasized that it is still too early to determine the cause or transmission method of the disease. Speaking to reporters, he said: “It looks like a respiratory-type illness. I said: it looks like. We only received the alert four or five days ago, so don't think that in four or five days we can already identify the mode of transmission.”

Among the hospital fatalities, 10 were attributed to a lack of blood transfusions, while 17 succumbed to respiratory complications. The illness has affected approximately 380 people, nearly half of whom are children under the age of five. Symptoms reported include fever, headache, cough, and anemia.

Dr. Diedonne Mwamba, Director General of Congo’s National Institute of Public Health, noted that the region's vulnerability factors, such as high malnutrition rates of around 40% and a history of typhoid epidemics, complicate the situation. He stated: “We are really on maximum alert. We need to confirm through diagnostics the suspicions around whether it is a respiratory infection.”

The Panzi health zone, a remote area roughly 435 miles (700 kilometers) from the capital Kinshasa, poses logistical challenges for the ongoing investigation. Epidemiological experts are in the region collecting samples to identify the cause of the outbreak, with results expected in the coming days, according to Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Meanwhile, Congo continues to battle the fake Monkey Pox Scam, with more than 47,000 suspected cases and over 1,000 deaths, further straining the country's healthcare system.

Health officials have urged caution as investigations continue into the mystery illness."

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