Mysterious, deadly, flu-like disease outbreak in Congo

10 December 2024

The details are pretty scant at the moment. So far the flu-like disease killed close to one-hundred-and-fifty people in the south west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in November.

Infected people had flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches, Remy Saki, the deputy governor of Kwango province, and Apollinaire Yumba, the provincial minister of health, said on Monday.

Whether the illness is contained and dealt with, or spreads further, remains to be seen. It sounds nasty though, whatever it is.