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500 000 lassa fever cases in W Africa
2011-08-11 11:13
Freetown - An estimated 500 000 people in west Africa are infected with lassa fever every year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, amid calls for more money to be spent on preventing its spread.
"The disease remains an epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria with evidence of its presence in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Mali," the WHO's representative in Sierra Leone, Dr Wondimagegnehu Anemu told delegates at a conference on infectious diseases.
500 000 lassa fever cases in W Africa
2011-08-11 11:13
Freetown - An estimated 500 000 people in west Africa are infected with lassa fever every year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, amid calls for more money to be spent on preventing its spread.
"The disease remains an epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria with evidence of its presence in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Mali," the WHO's representative in Sierra Leone, Dr Wondimagegnehu Anemu told delegates at a conference on infectious diseases.