DAR ES SALAAM, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian health authorities announced on Monday that a strange disease that has killed three people in the country's southern region of Lindi has been identified as field fever or leptospirosis.

Ummy Mwalimu, the Minister for Health, announced the identification of the disease when she visited Ruangwa district in Lindi region where the outbreak of the disease was reported last week.

Field fever is a bacterial disease and humans become infected from domestic and wild animals, said Mwalimu.

On Friday last week, Mwalimu said a team of Tanzanian medical experts had been dispatched to areas that the disease broke out in Lindi region to identify the strange disease whose symptoms include fever, nosebleeds, headache and body fatigue.

She reiterated that samples of patients infected by the disease tested negative for COVID-19, Ebola and Marburg.

On Wednesday last week, Aifello Sichalwe, the chief medical officer in the Ministry of Health, issued an alert saying three people have been killed and 13 others admitted to health centers after the strange disease broke out in the country's southern region of Lindi.

Sichalwe said in a statement people should not panic following the outbreak of the strange disease as the government was working hard to identify it. Enditem

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