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CONGO'S health minister said Thursday, December 5, 2024, the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.Authorities have so far confirmed 71 deaths, including 27 people who died in hospitals and 44 in the community in the southern Kwango province, health minister Roger Kamba said.“The Congolese government is on general alert regarding this disease,' Kamba said, without providing more details.
“The health system is quite weak in our rural areas, but for certain types of care, the ministry has all the provisions, and we are waiting for the first results of the sample analysis to properly calibrate things,” he added.A Panzi resident, Claude Niongo, said his wife and seven-year-old daughter died from the disease.“We do not know the cause but I only noticed high fevers, vomiting... and then death,” Niongo told The Associated Press over the phone.
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