Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
RIFT VALLEY FEVER, EAST AFRICA (33): BURUNDI (MUYINGA)
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Date: Thu 10 May 2007
Source: Radio Publique Africaine, Bujumbura, (trans. from French) 10 May
2007 [edited]
Rift Valley fever hits Burundi
[transcribed from a radio broadcast by correspondent MS]
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Rift Valley fever has killed one person in Muyinga Province [in the north
east]. According to the deputy director of the Kiyanza [phonetic] health
centre, [words indistinct] 200 more people are affected by the disease. The same source said that 7 people were hospitalised at the Kiyanza [phonetic] health centre. Others are at home.
Mrs Francine [name indistinct], who is the centre's deputy director, said that the centre had received medication [?] for the disease yesterday [9 May 2007]. She said that the [provincial] governor's adviser on public health had travelled there to see the situation with those already infected and those not yet infected.
Sources said that those infected had eaten meat from animals [which came] from Tanzania.
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communicated by
Michelle Sellors
michelle.sellors@masta.org
[This is the first report of Rift Valley fever cases in Burundi and
represents a significant extension westwards of the Rift Valley fever
outbreak in East Africa. A map of Burundi can be accessed at
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/burundi.pdf
The province of Muyinga is located in northeast Burundi and the town of
Muyinga is close to the Tanzanian border. - Mod.CP]
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A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org
Date: Thu 10 May 2007
Source: Radio Publique Africaine, Bujumbura, (trans. from French) 10 May
2007 [edited]
Rift Valley fever hits Burundi
[transcribed from a radio broadcast by correspondent MS]
------------------------------
Rift Valley fever has killed one person in Muyinga Province [in the north
east]. According to the deputy director of the Kiyanza [phonetic] health
centre, [words indistinct] 200 more people are affected by the disease. The same source said that 7 people were hospitalised at the Kiyanza [phonetic] health centre. Others are at home.
Mrs Francine [name indistinct], who is the centre's deputy director, said that the centre had received medication [?] for the disease yesterday [9 May 2007]. She said that the [provincial] governor's adviser on public health had travelled there to see the situation with those already infected and those not yet infected.
Sources said that those infected had eaten meat from animals [which came] from Tanzania.
--
communicated by
Michelle Sellors
michelle.sellors@masta.org
[This is the first report of Rift Valley fever cases in Burundi and
represents a significant extension westwards of the Rift Valley fever
outbreak in East Africa. A map of Burundi can be accessed at
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/burundi.pdf
The province of Muyinga is located in northeast Burundi and the town of
Muyinga is close to the Tanzanian border. - Mod.CP]
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