The World Health Organization said Thursday its experts were investigating a new, unidentified cluster of illness in the DR Congo after two previous mystery outbreaks earlier this year.
The WHO said the Bolamba zone in the western province of Equateur reported 12 people who fell ill, including eight deaths, in January.
Earlier this month, 158 cases and 58 deaths were reported in the Basankusu zone.
And last week, 141 people fell ill in Basankusu zone. No deaths have been reported so far.
“Increased disease surveillance has identified a total of 1,096 sick people and 60 deaths in Basankusu and Bolomba fitting a broad case definition,” the UN health agency added.
The definition includes “fever, headache, chills, sweating, stiff neck, muscle aches, multiple joint pain and body aches, a runny or bleeding from nose, cough, vomiting and diarrhoea.
“The Democratic Republic…
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