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africanews

For nearly a month, a mysterious disease has killed 38 people in northern Uganda. The authorities are trying to identify with the help of international experts. A disease, yet unknown, would have appeared in several districts of northern Uganda, according to the Ministry of Health of the country.

It has already killed 38 and now 91 cases have been identified.

The victims, all adult males, suffered from fever, accompanied by severe headaches, dizziness, diarrhoea and vomiting.

The local and international media have thought of a possible resurgence of an epidemic of bubonic plague. The last cases were reported in 2008 in Uganda. However, nothing confirms this argument yet. The results are "negative," said an official from the Ugandan Ministry of Health. No similar disease had been identified so far, concerned local authorities.

Alarmed, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) were sent to Uganda. American experts from the U.S. Center for Prevention and Disease Control will also attempt to identify the mysterious disease as quickly as possible to prevent it makes more victims.