A team of doctors and health experts have been sent to southern Tanzania after a mysterious nosebleed disease caused three deaths.
It writes The Telegraph.
People affected by the enigmatic disease may experience symptoms such as fever, headache, fatigue and nosebleeds.
Tanzania’s health director Aifello Sichalwe said in a statement, quoted by the British newspaper.
Suspects bleeding fever
The disease has so far been registered in the Lindi region, which is located in the southeast of the country. So far, 13 people have been confirmed infected.
It is now suspected that the nosebleed disease may be due to some form of viral haemorrhagic fever (hemorrhagic fever).
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– Hemorrhagic fever is a collective term for various viral infections that are most often unrelated and that give characteristic symptoms with heavy bleeding and high mortality, writes National Institute of Public Health.
There are four families of RNA viruses that cause the most important types of bleeding fever: Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Filoviridae and Flaviviridae.
Another known virus that can cause bleeding fever is the so-called marburg virus which was recently detected in Ghana for the very first time.
Tested negative
The viruses that cause four of these diseases have been identified by World Health Organization (WHO) as “priority pathogens” with epidemic or pandemic potential.
This applies to the diseases hemorrhagic fever (Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever), lasso fever, marburg virus disease and Ebola.
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According to Sichalwe, patients in Tanzania have tested negative for two of the bleeding fever viruses that have previously been detected in the region, namely Ebola and Marburg.
Patients should also have tested negative for covid-19.
One of the 13 infected is said to have recovered, but the others are still in isolation, according to The Telegraph.
– Trust the experts
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, has commented on the mysterious disease on Twitter.
– I would like to point out that I am a complete and unequivocal opponent of unexplained viral bleeding fever, she writes, and adds:
Suspects viral disease with extreme mortality
– And I’m not sure how worried one should be on a scale from “completely chill” to “HOLY SHIT”. But obviously this is something that is already being addressed by experts in the country. Trust them.
According to BBC Health Director Sichalwe asks the country’s residents to remain calm, while doctors and health experts investigate the matter further
However, he encourages people who experience similar symptoms to seek medical attention immediately.
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