{"id":11870,"date":"2026-04-15T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:09:20","slug":"burundi-mysterious-disease-kills-five-who-investigates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/15\/burundi-mysterious-disease-kills-five-who-investigates\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Mysterious disease kills five; WHO investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lamilano.it\/en\/by-the-media\/Burundi%3A-Mysterious-disease-kills-5%3B-WHO-investigates\/\">Lamilano<\/a> Burundian health authorities, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), are investigating the cause of a mysterious disease that has caused five deaths and 35 infections in the Mpanda district, located in the northern region of the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laboratory tests have ruled out the presence of Ebola and Marburg virus infections, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. An alert for this undiagnosed disease was issued on March 31, 2026, primarily affecting members of the same household and their close contacts. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Observed symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, hematuria, fatigue, and abdominal pain. Some severe cases have also manifested jaundice and anemia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While it is reassuring that preliminary tests are negative for these serious infections, further investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the disease,&#8221; said Dr. Lydwine Badarahana, Burundi&#8217;s Minister of Health, according to the WHO statement. &#8220;All necessary measures are in place to safeguard public health and prevent the potential spread of the infection,&#8221; she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" cdZ  OFK M PENszoQhORH\"><!--  cdZ  OFK M PENszoQhORH --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamilano Burundian health authorities, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), are investigating the cause of a mysterious disease that has caused five deaths and 35 infections in the Mpanda district, located in the northern region of the country.&nbsp; Laboratory tests have ruled out the presence of Ebola and Marburg virus infections, Rift Valley fever, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}