Representation of the Congo “depth”, as it spreads a deadly and unspecified disease

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that its “investigation” deepens a mysterious disease suspected of killing more than 60 people in the Northern Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past five weeks, warning that it has been continuing to spread.

Who said in statement On Thursday, along with Congo Health officials, “more investigations were being conducted to determine the cause of another group of social diseases and deaths” in an equal province, which represents the third time that the disease monitoring teams have determined this year an increase in disease and deaths in the region.

“A group of the latest group in the Basangosto health area occurred, with additional 141 people last week, without any death being reported,” said the United Nations World Health Agency. “In the same health area, 158 cases and 58 deaths were reported in the same health area earlier in February. In January, the Paulba Health area reported 12 people, including 8 deaths.”

Office from Africa He said earlier this week The first outbreak was among the many children who took the bats and then died within 48 hours after experimenting with symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, similar to those caused by Ebola or Marburg viruses.

The deaths occurred in one village, Poloko, were affected by all ages, however, teenagers and youth seemed most vulnerable.

Anxiety about the effect of Trump’s front lines

When a number of unjustified cases emerge, a team of health officials and international “viruses” immediately goes to investigate the outbreak of the disease, determining who is the first condition – the “patient zero” – and work to determine and treat the disease.

But these teams have been destroyed by the recent Trump administration US foreign aid discountsA health official working in the area told CBS News on Thursday.

During the first cabinet meeting of Mr. Trump’s second administration on Wednesday, Elon Musk, an unintended member. Dog section directed towards efficiency Emplased by Ebola programs They targeted the United States Agency for International Development.

“We all make mistakes, but when we make mistakes, we reform them quickly, and in the case of the United States Agency for International Development, we were mistakenly canceled, for a very short period, preventing Ebola, and lupola. I think we all want to prevent Ebola, so we have regained it and there was no boycott.”

However, a US health official who spoke with CBS News questioned the restoration of aid. They said that local workers trained in some hot areas of infectious diseases in Africa were not paid, and some were fully rejected due to the US Agency for International Development.

The United States has long been the largest international donor to the Congo sector, and financing has helped training epidemiologists to do the field work that determines and controls the outbreak of diseases. It is not clear how President Trump’s financing discounts will affect the difference on the ground, but there is widespread concern among health officials, as a fisherman told Virus News that the region faces an “perfect storm” for the potential spread of infectious diseases, including possible new diseases.

Race to determine mystery

In the north of the Congo, health officials were looking for anyone suffering from a general disease or a disease that fits a “extensive definition” that includes fever, chills, headache, nose bleeding, coughing, vomiting, diarrhea, harsh neck, muscles or joints

By February 19, the World Health Organization said 943 people suffer from such symptoms have been identified, including 52 who died.

The test results, which were released on February 13, showed that the first cases were not Ebola or Marburg, but half of the samples did not test positive for malaria. Health officials say previous samples of suspected cases are “unprecedable”, so re -testing the diagnosis process. Officials perform other tests, as they are also looking for meningitis, food, water testing, and other environmental samples from the affected area.

Officials say they are looking for unusual patterns in cases of mystery by increasing the disease monitoring and treating other diseases such as malaria, meningitis and typhoid fever.

A regional health team arrived in the Basankkusu Healthy area, which is about 110 miles from the Paulba area, on February 16, and was joined by a quick national response team from the Ministry of Health and two epidemics. They collected blood and urine samples and took oral and nose scents to test in an attempt to determine the disease.

“These diseases do not know limits.”

All of them have contributed to the affected areas, the low national health system in the Congo, the bad methods and the infrastructure of the phone to the challenges of diagnosing and containing disease.

About 1000 miles, in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the M23 rebel group – supported by Rwanda, according to the United Nations – Familize large areas of land In the rich mineral area, pushing the refugees to the camps and adding the burden of a healthy sector that is already struggling.

Sarah Olsen, Director of Health Research at the Wildlife Preservation Association, told CBS News on Thursday that Ebola, Marburg and other diseases, just like someone who did not kill them kill in the northern Congo, became the new natural, adding that the global community is ready to respond.

“The truth is that there have been many Ebola outbreaks around Africa in recent months, and now this mysterious disease in the Congo is very dangerous. We do not know enough,” she said, adding: “These diseases do not know any limits. It is time to increase funding and phenomena before one of these diseases ends in the city’s main center and begins with a new slap.”