Dr Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, told Metro that while it is possible this is an entirely new virus, it is more likely that it is a bug we already know about but haven’t yet managed to identify.
Local health officials said previously that the three girls suffered from a ‘hemorrhagic-like’ illness with symptoms of fever and vomiting leading to major internal bleeding.
Following a second outbreak in the town of Bomate on February 9, samples from 13 cases have been sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, for testing.
?Photographer: Arlette Bashizi/Bloomberg via Getty Images] But the most recent health department report found the girls also suffered from diarrhoea and fatigue.
The symptoms of a mystery illness sweeping across the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been revealed.
