Mysterious Dinga Dinga virus, That Makes People Dance Due To Infection

Dinga Dinga virus, That Makes People Dance Due To Infection

A new virus has aroused the concern, named Dinga Dinga Virus. This is a mysterious disease that has caused lots of fuss in Uganda. You might be wondering what kind of name is this, its because it is related to the body sickness of Dinga Dinga virus.

In this disease the patient presents with a very peculiar sign. In fact “Dinga Dinga” (What is Dinga Dinga Disease) refers to dancing while moving. The person affected with this disease will be moving all the time like a dancer is doing.

This mysterious disease has affected about 300 people in a district of Uganda, majority being women as well as young girls. Most of the cases of Dinga Dinga have been recorded in Uganda. A surprising number of the young people are the ones worst affected by this disease.

Recent cases of Dinga Dinga are being observed in teenagers’ girls and women. This is why there is worry; just like other types of viruses, the origin of this virus (Dinga Dinga Disease Causes) is also unknown.

At the current, there seems to be limited knowledge on this virus. Since the Ugandan Health Ministry has been doing the investigation more information is expected to be revealed in the following days.

In fact, patients with this infection develop shakes throughout the whole body, and they cannot even walk properly. It seems like the infected person is dancing. Thus, specialists are referring to this disease as the dancing plague which once erupted in Strasbourg in 1518. 

The same signs were also witnessed in dancing plague and used to die while dancing erratically. The most prominent sign is tonic–clonic convulsing which may be described as the dancing strengths. The quake is therefore very intense that it makes it extremely difficult for individuals to walk. High fever is commonly associated with weakness and tiredness, and sometimes may cause paleness. The shaking results in making some people like being handicapped or having immense problem moving in the streets.

 Local newspapers revealed that patients who were administered the said medicines normally recuperated within one week. This disease calls for improved sanitation, no contact with infected persons, and reporting any new incident to appropriate health departments. It has been the strange symptoms of ‘Dinga Dinga’ that has caused people to draw parallels of this event to that of historical episode such as the “dancing plague” of 1518.

The same year in Strasbourg France, hundreds of people were infected with uncontrollable dancing movements. This went on for several days. At that time exhaustion and in some instances death were also noted. While there might not be a direct correlation between these events and ‘Dinga Dinga’ the symptoms are raising eyebrows due to the similarities.