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Kwango: Chikungunya-like disease emerged in the Kenge health zone



2020-11-28

28.11.2020,







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Already 27 people are showing signs of this disease in the Kenge health zone in Kwango.

This is what Dr. Aimé Kayolo, head of the provincial health division, reveals to the press on Saturday 28 November 2020.

“27 cases have already been registered and 5 samples have been sent to the INRB for in-depth analysis. This disease manifests itself with stiffness, fever, muscle aches mainly in the lower limbs, thus preventing the patient from walking”, a- indicated.

To prevent it, it is based on the hygiene measures to be adopted against the chikungunya that is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito called “aedes aegypti” remembering that “it is a disease caused by a mosquito bite., Prevention is cleaning up the environment, so we must avoid crowding, avoid throwing everything everywhere, avoid puddles of water, what is needed is to clean up the environment, to have the place clean, that’s all “, he continued.

Pending the result of the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB), it invites the population to calm down.



Guylity Mutombo (corresponding to Kwango)
congo-press.com (MCP) / mediacongo.net

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