Hemorrhagic fever kills 3 in DRC
2008-06-05 09:54
Kinshasa - A medical official says three people have died from what is believed to be hemorrhagic fever in a remote Congolese province.
District medical inspector Jacques Mokange had declined to speculate on whether the illness could be Ebola, a type of hemorrhagic fever that killed six people in the Democratic Republic of Congo last November.
Mokange said on Wednesday all three exhibited the same symptoms - including internal bleeding followed by bleeding from all of the body's orifices.
The deaths took place on May 29, June 01 and on Wednesday morning in Boende, around 760km northeast of Kinshasa.
The World Health Organisation was investigating, but a spokesperson said it was too early to label the illness.
- AP