An unknown outbreak has registered 133 cases, 95 in Malawi and 38 in bordering country-Mozambique. According to the Nation Newspaper of Friday 24 July 2009, Secretary for Health, Chris Kang’ombe said the disease has so far killed 17, nine from Malawi and eight from Mozambique since May this year.
Five American health specialists arrived in the country. The Nation Newspaper said a press release from the American Embassy in Lilongwe said Malawi formally requested epidemiological aid assistance from the US Government on July 15.
In the first place samples were sent to South Africa. New samples have been again taken and sent to the Centre for the Disease Control in the USA for analysis.
The disease symptoms are a stiff neck, dehydration, fever, headache, joints pain, abdominal discomfort and loss of voice.
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