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Sep. 03, 2016 | 12:09 AM
Six suspected meningitis cases found near Damascus
Agence France Presse
GENEVA/AMMAN: Six suspected cases of meningitis have been identified in a Syrian town near Damascus that is under siege by government forces, the World Heath Organization said Friday.
The suspected cases were diagnosed in the town of Madaya between Aug. 3 and Aug. 30. WHO has already evacuated two of those infected, a child and an adolescent.
The U.N. agency said it was in contact with health officials about sending medicines and organizing the evacuation of the other four suspected cases.
An activist in Madaya, Abdel-Wahab Ahmed, who works at a health facility in the town, said the mother and two sisters of the evacuated child had also become infected.
?The family has been placed in medical isolation in their home, after two weeks of treatment with the only medicines available failed,? he said.
Several cases of meningitis are reported every week, according to WHO. Most of them are viral forms of the disease, which tend to be less severe than the bacterial form...
Sep. 03, 2016 | 12:09 AM
Six suspected meningitis cases found near Damascus
Agence France Presse
GENEVA/AMMAN: Six suspected cases of meningitis have been identified in a Syrian town near Damascus that is under siege by government forces, the World Heath Organization said Friday.
The suspected cases were diagnosed in the town of Madaya between Aug. 3 and Aug. 30. WHO has already evacuated two of those infected, a child and an adolescent.
The U.N. agency said it was in contact with health officials about sending medicines and organizing the evacuation of the other four suspected cases.
An activist in Madaya, Abdel-Wahab Ahmed, who works at a health facility in the town, said the mother and two sisters of the evacuated child had also become infected.
?The family has been placed in medical isolation in their home, after two weeks of treatment with the only medicines available failed,? he said.
Several cases of meningitis are reported every week, according to WHO. Most of them are viral forms of the disease, which tend to be less severe than the bacterial form...