A terrible new flu-like disease has killed 179 people—mostly teenagers—and health experts have no idea what it is.

By: Eliot Pierce

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According to authorities, a strange new virus that is sweeping across Africa has killed 179 people and is still growing, with young people accounting for the majority of the deaths.

According to the health ministry, the unnamed illness, which produces flu-like symptoms like fever, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, and anemia, has affected at least 300 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since November 10.

The most of the fatalities, according to the authorities, were 16 to 18 years old.

According to Reuters, the government has sent a medical team to investigate the peculiar pandemic in Kwango Province, where the illness is most common.

Although the administration has urged people to remain calm, civil society leader Cephorien Manzanza told Reuters that the rise in incidents is deeply alarming.

“There is a problem with the supply of medicines because Panzi is a rural health zone,” he said, referring to the village that was most affected.

The outbreak in Wuhan, China, happens just before the fifth anniversary of the first recorded case of COVID-19.

According to the BBC, mpox, which afflicted at least 14,500 people between January and July of this year, and other serious illnesses like ebola are common in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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