Up to 144 people who had contact with three people killed by a mysterious illness in southern Africa are being traced, the World Health Organisation said Friday.
Up to 144 people who had contact with three people killed by a mysterious illness in southern Africa are being traced, the World Health Organisation said Friday.
A statement said that "121 known contacts of the fatal cases are being traced in South Africa and 23 in Zambia."The organisation's spokeswoman Fadela Chaib also told journalists in Geneva that 121 of those are already under observation, and that "all are doing well."
WHO epidemologists have been been hunting for the cause of the mysterious illness which killed "an expatriate tour guide living in Lusaka" as well as a paramedic and a nurse, she added.
The disease is believed to be a haemorrhagic fever, but "three haemorrhagic fevers have been ruled out - Ebola, Rift Valley and Lhasa. They are not the cause of the disease," said Chaib.
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A nurse has also died since.
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Mystery Disease in Zambia Suspected to Be Pneumonic Plague
A mysterious disease which broke out in the south of Zambia, killing four people, is now suspected to be pneumonic plague, the health ministry said Friday.
A mysterious disease which broke out in the south of Zambia, killing four people, is now suspected to be pneumonic plague, the health ministry said Friday.
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