The WHO reported that since October 24, there have been 406 cases and 31 deaths from the undiagnosed disease, mostly affecting children.
'This is a remote area with limited laboratory and other health capacity-there is no laboratory in the region-so it's possible that it's an existing pathogen that hasn't yet been diagnosed,' a WHO spokesperson told Newsweek.
Affected patients are mostly children under 14 years old and are suffering from a range of flu-like symptoms including fever, cough, fatigue, and a runny nose.
The risk from the disease to local people is 'high', while marking the rest of the DRC as at 'moderate' risk, posing a 'low' risk internationally.
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