Kenya - Latest updates - 8th January 07
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- On 5th January the UN news service reported that the UN agencies are helping to draw up an action plan to fight a new outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in the Horn of Africa amid concerns that climate change with successive droughts and floods, some of it human-caused, could increase the 5-15 year cyclical frequency of the sometimes fatal viral hemorrhagic disease.
- Since the latest outbreak began there in November, 47 deaths have been reported in the flood -affected areas, of Garissa.
- On 8th January Agence France Presse (AFP) is reporting that an outbreak of Rift Valley fever has killed at least 75 people in Kenya over the past three weeks, , as authorities started vaccinating at least a million livestock in the affected regions.
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Type of document : Update
Country : KE KEN 404 Kenya, Republic of
Publication date 2007-Jan-08
Type of document : Update
Country : KE KEN 404 Kenya, Republic of
Publication date 2007-Jan-08
