More than 1,000 people have had a variety of symptoms such as fever, vomiting and internal bleeding.
Behind the illnesses in the Democratic Republic of more than 60 people in the Congo Congo, there may not be an unknown disease, but water, News about Science Science Publication.
reported on a number of illnesses on Wednesday. At that time, there was no strong doubt about their cause.
The onset of symptoms seems to be associated with “some kind of poisoning event,” said a doctor specializing in infectious diseases Mike Ryan World Health Organization at the WHO briefing on Friday.
According to Science, Ryan also said that in the village, where the most illness has been ill, people with their water have received their water from the same source.
Symptoms of people are fever, vomiting and internal bleeding. Patients have died within two days of the appearance of symptoms.
More than 1,000 people have become ill since the beginning of the year. In the first wave of illness, 12 cases of disease reported, eight of which led to death.
The WHO has tested the sufferers and excluded as pathogens of the Ebola and Malburg virus.
However, the previously unobtrusive disease is the lowest in the list of possible causes of illness, says a virologist interviewed by Science Steve Ahuka.