在刚果民主共和国，一种神秘疾病出现症状后仅数小时就导致 50 人死亡。
世界卫生组织和刚果民主共和国的医生表示，在大多数情况下，症状出现和死亡之间的时间仅为 48 小时。
官员们认为疫情始于 1 月 21 日，截至周一已记录 419 例病例。其中包括 53 人死亡。
据世卫组织非洲办事处称，第一起疫情始于博洛科镇，当时三名儿童吃了一只蝙蝠。
他们在出现出血热症状 48 小时后死亡，出血热是一组以发烧、出血、头痛、关节痛和其他症状为特征的疾病。
刚果民主共和国比科罗医院的医疗主任塞尔吉·恩加莱巴托在谈到他们死亡速度之快时告诉美联社，“这确实令人十分担忧。”
A mystery disease has killed 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just hours after symptoms began.
The World Health Organization and doctors in the DRC said that the time between symptom onset and death was just 48 hours in most cases.
Officials believe the outbreak began on January 21, and 419 cases have been recorded as of Monday. This includes 53 deaths.
According to the WHO’s Africa office, the first outbreak started in the town of Boloko after three children ate a bat.
They died 48 hours after developing symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, a group of illnesses characterized by fever, bleeding, headache, joint pain, and other symptoms.
‘That’s what’s really worrying,’ Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital in the DRC, told the Associated Press, referring to how rapidly they perished.
