Europe 1 14:42 p.m., March 17, 2023

A mysterious disease causing fever, vomiting or haemorrhage, was detected in Tanzania and caused the death of 5 people. An investigation was opened and medical experts were dispatched to the north-west of the country to take samples from patients and victims.

Tanzania has asked medical experts to investigate a mysterious "communicable" disease that has already killed five people in the country, authorities said. This disease was detected in "seven people with symptoms such as fever, vomiting, hemorrhages and kidney failure," detailed the Ministry of Health in a statement released late Thursday night.

Samples taken to identify the disease

Medical experts have been dispatched to the northwestern region of Kagera bordering Uganda to investigate the "communicable" disease, said health official Tumaini Nagu. "Samples were taken from patients and the dead to identify the source and type of disease," she said in a statement, calling for calm.

The case comes after an Ebola outbreak in Uganda that lasted almost four months and killed 55 people. Uganda declared the outbreak over in January.

Last year, Tanzania identified an outbreak of leptospirosis, or "rat disease," that killed three people in the southeastern Lindi region. This bacterial disease, transmitted to humans by some mammals, is spread through water or food contaminated with the urine of infected animals.