Health experts say that an unknown disease has been discovered for the first time in three children who took bats that have quickly killed more than 50 people in the northwest of the Congo over the past five weeks.

“This is what is really concern,” Serge Nagalpato, the medical director of the Picoro Hospital, a regional control center. .

The symptoms of “this hemorrhagic fever” are usually associated with known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow fever, but researchers excluded this based on tests for more than ten samples collected so far.

The outbreak of the last diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began on January 21, with 419 cases and 53 deaths.

The World Health Organization of Africa said on Monday that the outbreak of the outbreak began in the village of Buluko after he took three children with a bat and died within 48 hours.

For a long time, there have been concerns about the diseases that jump from animals to humans in places where wild animals are eaten popularly. The World Health Organization said in 2022 that the number of these outbreaks in Africa has increased by more than 60 percent in the past decade, and the World Health Organization said in 2022.

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After the outbreak of the second disease of mystery in the village of Bomate on February 9, 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, for testing, World Health Organization. All samples were negative for common hemorrhagic fever diseases, although some were tested positively for malaria.

Last year, another influenza -like disease was identified that killed dozens of people in another part of the Congo to be malaria.