{"id":8295,"date":"2024-12-11T09:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2024-12-11T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:59:20","slug":"some-patients-in-mysterious-outbreak-in-democratic-republic-of-congo-have-malaria-early-testing-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/11\/some-patients-in-mysterious-outbreak-in-democratic-republic-of-congo-have-malaria-early-testing-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Some patients in mysterious outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo have malaria, early testing reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/10\/health\/democratic-republic-congo-outbreak-malaria\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> A mysterious illness outbreak that has sickened at least 416 people<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>and killed 31 in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo may be at least partly caused by malaria, health officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information on the situation is still limited. World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing---10-december-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;that of 12 initial samples collected from patients, 10 tested positive for malaria, \u201calthough it\u2019s possible that more than one disease is involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients\u2019 symptoms have included headache, cough, fever, breathing difficulties, body aches and anemia. Most of the cases and deaths are in children under the age of 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/10\/health\/democratic-republic-congo-outbreak-malaria\/index.html\">continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"zzPceC jovAHAsg wq TCA nA JFrpAW\">zzPceC jovAHAsg wq TCA nA JFrpAW<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN A mysterious illness outbreak that has sickened at least 416 people&nbsp;and killed 31 in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo may be at least partly caused by malaria, health officials said Tuesday. Information on the situation is still limited. World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus&nbsp;said&nbsp;that of 12 initial samples [&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":[6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-malaria"],"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\/8295","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=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8296,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions\/8296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}