Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Emergency yellow fever meeting called

 

Yellow Fever Vaccination2 
 
The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday over the yellow fever outbreak that has killed more than 290 people in Angola and threatens other countries, the AFP news agency reports.

It quotes a WHO spokesman saying that it plans to reiterate the need for a mass vaccination campaign.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has also been affected, and has 44 suspected cases.

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