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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 governmentโs 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.
โThe government formed a team of professionals who are still investigating this unknown disease,โ 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.
Tanzaniaโs President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Tuesday the โstrangeโ disease reported in Lindi may have been caused by โgrowing interactionโ between humans and wild animals as a result of environmental degradation.
