Amid investigations into this mysterious disease, health officials have also had to respond to mpox outbreaks in the country.

Ten patients suffering from a “mystery illness” that has caused 79 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have tested positive for malaria. The central African nation has so far reported 376 cases of the illness, which primarily affects women and children under five.

The WHO has dispatched a health team to Congo following the deaths of over 31 individuals, mostly children, due to a mysterious illness with flu-like symptoms, referred to by some experts as 'Disease X'.

A mysterious illness, which is called "Disease X,” has killed at least 31 people—mostly children—in the remote Panzi region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organisation says. According to the health body,

With symptoms including fever and cough, the respiratory disease has affected nearly 380 people, half of them young children.

Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious disease physician at Stanford Medicine, told NBC News that the Congo outbreak “does raise alarm bells” because of its location. Humans and wild