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Experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo say that their results regarding the identification of the cause of the mysterious disease that is spreading in the west of the country indicate that the coronavirus is one of the causes of the disease.
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According to Actualite, experts at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the Democratic Republic of Congo concluded that this is a complex case of co-infection – infection of a single cell with several types of virus at the same time. The two causative agents of the disease (last identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the AH1N1 influenza virus and the emerging SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus interact at the same time as the cause of malaria, and infection occurs in the face of the disease. background of general weakness of the body due to insufficient nutrition.
It is worth noting that an international team of scientists announced on December 17 that the mysterious disease was an acute form of malaria, but subsequent studies showed that the disease was caused by a group of pathogens.
It should be noted that this mysterious disease began to spread in October in the Kwangju Governorate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and was accompanied by high temperatures and severe headaches. According to official government statistics, the number of people who infected with the disease reached 593 people, 36 of them died, but the government authorities announced the death of 143 people.