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EA health ministers discuss yellow fever outbreak today
Adapted From IPPP Media By Correspondent 21st January 2011 Health ministers from the East African Community (EAC) are scheduled to hold an emergency meeting here today to evaluate the status…
Kenya on high alert over yellow fever
Adapted From: www.coastweek.com The outbreak is centered at Kaabong district in northern Uganda which borders Kenya’s Turkana region NAIROBI , (Xinhua) — Kenya has been placed on high alert following…
Yellow fever – WHO fact sheet
Adapted From www.who.int Key facts * Yellow fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. The “yellow” in the name refers to the jaundice that affects some…
Kenya Public Health 0 Yellow fever outbreak
Kenyan health care: As drought-affected northern Kenya dries up, livestock owners are crossing borders looking for greener pastures. But the ministry of public health and sanitation is keeping an especially…
Kenyans warned over yellow fever in Uganda
Adapted From Capital FM BY JUDIE KABERIA NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 11 – The government has advised Kenyans travelling to northern Uganda to get vaccinated against yellow fever, after an outbreak…
Yellow fever vaccination to delay for two weeks
Adapted From Daily Monitor By Flavia Lanyero & Cissy Makumbi Posted Monday, January 3 2011 at 00:00 Kampala/Gulu Contrary to what government promised, the yellow fever vaccine may take another…
Uganda plans mass vaccination in yellow fever outbreak
Adapted from CNN By the CNN Wire Staff December 28, 2010 ganda is planning to inoculate 2.5 million residents in the East African nation’s northern districts, where a yellow fever…
Yellow fever spreads to 10 districts
Adapted from New Vision By Anne Mugisa THE Ministry of Health wants $35m (about sh80b) to purchase the yellow fever vaccine for 10 districts in the north to stop the…
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