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Yellow Fever — Cote d’Ivoire
A yellow fever outbreak has killed at least 15 people in Ivory Coast and threatens many more in the West African country, the head of a government crisis team said on [Fri 8 Sep 2017].
The United Nation’s World Health Organisation appealed for funds on [Wed 6 Sep 2017] to help the cash-strapped government in an emergency campaign to vaccinate 3 million people.
“Up to now we have had 128 suspected cases of which 20 were confirmed in the laboratory and 15 are dead,” said Guillaume Loukou