{"id":8357,"date":"2024-12-17T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:02:49","slug":"congos-health-ministry-identifies-flu-like-disease-as-severe-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/17\/congos-health-ministry-identifies-flu-like-disease-as-severe-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo&#8217;s health ministry identifies flu-like disease as severe malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/congo-1.7412926\">CBC<\/a> Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s health ministry said on Tuesday that a previously unidentified disease circulating in the southwestern Kwango province is a severe form of malaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the country&#8217;s Panzi health zone in November. The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, cough, runny nose and body aches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The mystery has finally been solved. It&#8217;s a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness,&#8221; the health ministry said in a statement, adding malnutrition in the area had weakened the local population, leaving them more vulnerable to disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/congo-1.7412926\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s health ministry said on Tuesday that a previously unidentified disease circulating in the southwestern Kwango province is a severe form of malaria. Earlier this month, local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the country&#8217;s Panzi health zone in November. The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, [&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-8357","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\/8357","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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}