Blood test results have shown that a
55-year-old man from Veneto died of malaria after a trip to the
Democratic Republic of Congo, ruling out a mysterious fatal
disease reported in the African country as the cause of death,
the Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases said
in a note sent to ANSA on Wednesday.
The institute said it analysed blood samples "to search for
different pathogen agents at the laboratory of Virology and the
laboratories of Biosecurity".
The same tests have ruled out the presence of other
viral-bacterial co-infections, it said.
The man died with fever and hemorrhaging after recently
returning from a trip to the DRC.
Congo's Ministry of Health has said the mystery disease is a
severe form of malaria, but the World Health Organization has
said the cause has not yet been established and laboratory tests
are ongoing.
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