The mystery surrounding the mysterious ‘Disease X’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been solved. The infection, now identified as a severe form of malaria, has not lost much of its horror. While at least 143 people have already died in Congo due to the disease, Italy has now reported its first death.
A 55-year-old man from the northern Italian province of Treviso had been in the capital Kinshasa and along the Congo River and had recently returned home. He was hospitalized there after his condition deteriorated. He eventually died after severe fever and bleeding, Italian media reported.
Contact person in home isolation
The Roman Hospital Spallanzani, which specializes in infectious diseases, is now conducting investigations to determine the origins of the disease. Home isolation has been ordered for the only person who came into contact with the deceased.
Another Italian who returned from Africa with flu-like symptoms and had been admitted to a hospital in the Tuscan city of Lucca in recent days was able to leave the hospital.
Congo: “Mystery finally solved”
Recently, more and more cases of a mysterious illness have emerged in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Tuesday it was finally announced that, according to Congolese authorities, it was probably a serious form of malaria in the form of a respiratory disease. “The mystery” has “finally been solved,” according to the Ministry of Health in the capital Kinshasa.
Source: Krone
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