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Somalia: Unknown Disease Kills 50 in Hiraan Region

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Shiloh

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Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201311271528.html


Garowe Online (Garowe)
Somalia: Unknown Disease Kills 50 in Hiraan Region
27 November 2013


Beledweyne, Somalia Nov.27, 2013 ? Unknown-illness outbreak has claimed at killed at least 50 lives in Hiraan region of central Somalia, Garowe Online reports.

The Director-General of Beledweyne hospital Ahmed Mohamed Khalif said "50 people died of the disease whose symptoms included high fever, paraplegia and fecal impaction," adding that the disease sickened 15 patients in El-Ali village, 75 km south of Hiraan regional capital of Beledweyne...
 
Re: Somalia: Unknown Disease Kills 50 in Hiraan Region

The article later contains the line:

"The outbreak as of October killed 20 persons in Moqo-kori town but blood tests from those patients were positive for polio".

So it is certainly possible that the unknown outbreak is polio, whether or not the counts are consistent.
 
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