{"id":8672,"date":"2025-02-25T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mystery-illness-in-congo-kills-more-than-50-people-including-children-who-ate-a-bat\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:43:37","slug":"mystery-illness-in-congo-kills-more-than-50-people-including-children-who-ate-a-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mystery-illness-in-congo-kills-more-than-50-people-including-children-who-ate-a-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery illness in Congo kills more than 50 people, including children who ate a bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to doctors in the central African nation and the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been just 48 hours in the majority of cases, and &#8220;that&#8217;s what&#8217;s really worrying,&#8221; Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center, told The Associated Press on Monday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest disease outbreak in Congo began on Jan. 21, and 419 cases had been recorded as of Monday, including 53 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>According to the WHO&#8217;s Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>There have long been concerns about <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/growing-threat-of-animal-to-human-diseases-cited-by-u-n-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">diseases jumping from animals to humans<\/a><\/span> in places where wild animals are popularly eaten. The number of such outbreaks in Africa has surged by more than 60% in the last decade, the WHO said in 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"DR CONGO-GOMA-DAILY LIFE-MARKET \" height=\"439\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/25\/691a8a98-9287-4a62-a8eb-9941071ff7b3\/thumbnail\/620x439\/532e15cdf69f309a832d2a3f664a4a58\/congo-market-2196667008.jpg?v=8530dec12e70cec71e9990a5fbc34391 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/25\/691a8a98-9287-4a62-a8eb-9941071ff7b3\/thumbnail\/1240x878\/22b1ff0a4111f05faa48cdcdf5a97f83\/congo-market-2196667008.jpg?v=8530dec12e70cec71e9990a5fbc34391 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Vendors sell chicken at a street market in Goma, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo,   Feb. 1, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Zanem Nety Zaidi\/Xinhua\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the second outbreak of the current mystery disease began in the town of Bomate on Feb. 9, samples from 13 cases have been sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo&#8217;s capital, Kinshasa, for testing, the WHO said.<\/p>\n<p>All samples have been negative for <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ebola\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ebola<\/a><\/span> or other common hemorrhagic fever diseases like <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/marburg-virus-what-to-know-symptoms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Marburg<\/a><\/span>. Some tested positive for <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/what-is-malaria-symptoms-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">malaria<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, another mystery flu-like illness that killed <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/congo-mystery-disease-identified-severe-malaria-deaths-women-children\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">more than 143 people<\/a><\/span> in another part of Congo was determined to be likely malaria.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"DRCONGO-HEALTH-VIRUS-MPOX \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/10\/18\/42944ba2-c01d-4806-939b-6b198ccee01a\/thumbnail\/620x413\/d0d4d7fb1c9b5a0d88795d155de171e1\/mpox-2173623810.jpg?v=8530dec12e70cec71e9990a5fbc34391 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/10\/18\/42944ba2-c01d-4806-939b-6b198ccee01a\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/74dacb84e96ff9a5c53c7f6bc3e8cfd7\/mpox-2173623810.jpg?v=8530dec12e70cec71e9990a5fbc34391 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Nurses examine patients at an mpox treatment center in Kamituga, South Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 20, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                GLODY MURHABAZI\/AFP\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congo has suffered from many disease outbreaks in recent years, including typhoid, malaria and anemia. 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