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Tanzania Probes Mystery Illness After Three Die

By AFP - Agence France Presse
July 13, 2022



Tanzania has dispatched a team of doctors and health experts to investigate a mysterious disease that has claimed the lives of three people, the government said Wednesday.

Symptoms of the illness include fever, headaches, fatigue and nosebleeds, the government's chief medical officer Aifello Sichalwe said in a statement.

So far, 13 cases have been reported in the southeastern region of Lindi, including the three people who died.

Sichalwe said the patients had tested negative for Ebola and Marburg, as well as Covid-19.

One of the patients had fully recovered while the others were being isolated, he said.

"The government formed a team of professionals who are still investigating this unknown disease," he added, calling on people in the area to remain calm.

Ghana last week reported two suspected cases of the Marburg virus, which belongs to the same family as Ebola and has symptoms including high fever and internal and external bleeding.


Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Tuesday the "strange" disease reported in Lindi may have been caused by "growing interaction" between humans and wild animals as a result of environmental degradation.

Three die of nosebleed in Southern Tanzania


Dodom. One day after the government dispatched a team of health scientists to investigate a 'strange' nosebleed disease in Southern Tanzania, three deaths have been reported in Lindi.

The three were among 11 people diagnosed with the disease which has so far witnessed an alarming rise in the country.

Gracing the 20th Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in East Africa (AMECEA) Plenary Assembly organized by Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC), President Hassan said the hypothesis was that the disease is associated with impacts of environmental degradation.

She said with environmental degradation, the lives of some wild species have been disrupted, forcing them to go closer to human settlements, thus affecting human health.

The deaths were confirmed by Tanzania's chief medical officer, Aifelo Sichwale, during media briefing in the capital of Dodoma on Wednesday July 13, 2022.

He said the condition which is yet to be identified, brokeout in Ruangwa Municipal in Lindi region at Mbekenyera health center .

“Within three days (July 5- 7, 2022) at the center they received two patients with fever symptoms, nosebleed, headache and fatigue,” he said.

He added: As of July 12 (today) there were a total of 11 patients, of which three have died.

However, he said, other two patients were isolated at Mbekenyera health center recovered and have been discharged.

“Also there are other five patient who have isolated themselves at their homes in Kilwa district,” he said



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Nose bleeding in Tanzania identified as Leptospirosis
MONDAY JULY 18 2022


Summary

The disease spreads from animals to humans when humans come into contact with urine from animals who are carriers of the bacteria that causes Leptospirosis


By Bethsheba Wambura
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Dar es Salaam. The mysterious outbreak that killed three people in Southern Tanzania a week ago, sending panic across the country because it was unknown, has been identified as Leptospirosis, also known as field fever.
Leptospirosis is caused by a bacteria known as Leptospira interrogans, said Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu on Monday July 18, during a press briefing in Lindi where the disease was first reported in Tanzania.

According to the her, more than 20 cases have been reported, with three deaths. Two patients are currently hospitalised.
The disease spreads from animals to humans when humans come into contact with urine from animals who are carriers of the bacteria.

“It is rare for the disease to be transimmitted from person to person,” she noted.

She added: The disease has been existing in tropical areas with high temperatures in North America, South America, Asia and Australia and is carried by animals like dogs, rodents, etc who have contracted the infection and spread it to humans.

On July 15, Tanzania’s chief medical officer, Aifelo Sichwale, said three people among 11 reported to have diagnosed with the disease had died in Lindi.

The news came few days after President Samia Suluhu Hassan issued an alarm on the mysterious disease in Southen Tanzania where people with nosebleed collapse and died.


Gracing the 20th Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in East Africa (AMECEA) Plenary Assembly organised by Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC), President Hassan said the hypothesis was that the disease is associated with impacts of environmental degradation.

She said with environmental degradation, the lives of some wild species have been disrupted, forcing them to go closer to human settlements, thus affecting human health.

The three were among 11 people diagnosed with the disease which has so far witnessed an alarming rise in the country.

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With environmental degradation, the lives of some wild species have been disrupted, forcing them to go closer to human settlements, thus affecting human health.

Rats are one of the commonly known carriers of Leptospirosis.

Well then, it's no "mystery disease." Just a disease left to the health care system available in Tanzania. And that's scary enough.

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Originally posted by lavaca:
Well then, it's no "mystery disease." Just a disease left to the health care system available in Tanzania. And that's scary enough.

Pfizer will develop a vaccine for it in record time!

And that Bimbo running the CDC will force you all to take a quadruple doses every year!


Moderna won’t be far behind!