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Unknown disease in Panzi: a delegation from the Ministry of Health and its partners are staying in Kwango to improve the health situationMonday, December 9, 2024 - 3:01 p.m.

A delegation from the Ministry of Health and its partners including the World Health Organization, arrived Sunday in Kenge, the capital of Kwango province. It met with the provincial authority on Sunday to discuss strategies to identify the still unknown disease that is raging in the Panzi health zone, in the Kasongo-Lunda territory. Patient care and the eradication of this disease were examined with a fine-tooth comb.
Head of this delegation, Masoko Matthias explained that she should urgently go to Panzi to improve the health situation......

"It is first to identify the phenomenon and to be able to name it. As there was the alert with many deaths, we went with a first batch of emergency medicines of more than two tons for the population of Panzi. We are going there for three major challenges, to identify the phenomenon on site, to react or minimize the loss of human life and to coordinate the interventions around the Ministry of Health", indicated Dr Luc Shabongo, WHO representative. ...-

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It has been 10 days since the "mystery outbreak" in the Democratic Republic of Congo was discovered and 4 days since samples were obtained for testing, according to the Ministry of Health.

There is still no information about what might be behind the outbreak.

DJ...going very slow...