Found in the African country of Tanzania, the disease is likely contagious.

A mysterious infectious disease that causes headaches and fevers has killed at least five people in Tanzania, east Africa.

This is reported by Arab News.

The country's health ministry described the illness as “strange”. Its symptoms include fever, headaches, vomiting, kidney failure, and nosebleeds.

The authorities sent a team of doctors to diagnose the disease in the northwestern region of Kagera, where seven cases of the disease have been reported. Five people have died from the disease.

“Two other patients are in the hospital and are being treated. The trend of the disease indicates that it is contagious,” Tanzania’s chief medical officer, Tumaini Nagu, said.

Health experts continue to closely monitor the disease and have taken steps to prevent its spread.

The population in the Kagera region is being urged to take precautions, including avoiding touching a patient's body fluids such as saliva, tears, blood, urine and feces, or people with these symptoms. In addition, the authorities are asked to immediately report any suspected infected with such symptoms.

Last year, an outbreak of leptospirosis, or “rat disease”, was discovered in Tanzania, killing three people in the Lindi region in the southeast of the country. Transmitted to humans by certain mammals, this bacterial disease is spread through water or food contaminated by the urine of infected animals.

We will remind, earlier in Argentina, three people died from an infection incomprehensible to scientists.

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