Tanzania investigates mysterious illness that killed three
Tanzania has sent a team of doctors and health experts to the country’s southeast to investigate a mysterious disease that has killed three people.
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The disease, whose symptoms include nosebleeds, fever, headaches and fatigue, was detected in the Lindi region, the government’s chief medical officer, Aifello Sichalwe, said on Wednesday.
“The government has formed a team of professionals who are still investigating the unknown disease,” Sichalwe said in a statement, calling on residents to remain calm.
A total of 13 cases of patients have been detected, three of whom have died.
Mr Sichalwe added that the patients tested negative for Ebola, Marburg virus and Covid-19. One of them has recovered while the others are in isolation.
Ghana last week detected two suspected cases of Marburg virus, a haemorrhagic fever almost as deadly as Ebola.
On Tuesday, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan told a religious gathering that the “strange” disease detected in Lindi could have been caused by “increasing interactions” between humans and animals due to environmental degradation.
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