Tanzania probes yet-to-be-known disease after five die in Kagera
Tanzania’s Chief Medical Officer Tumaini Nagu who on March 17, 2023 announced that doctors were investigating a yet-to-be-known disease that broke out in Kagera region and which had already killed five people. PHOTO | BEATRICE MATERU | NMG
Tanzania is investigating a yet-to-be-known disease in the northern Kagera region which has so far killed five people and left two others in critical condition.
Symptoms of the illness which broke out in two villages in Bukoba, Kagera include fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding through various body openings.
