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Editor, Senior Moderator
Yellow Fever Outbreak on Brink of Going Global
Media Contact
Erin Taylor 267.250.8829 (M)
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (August 16, 2016) ? The largest Yellow Fever epidemic in decades is hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Angola, and could soon spread to the Americas, Asia and Europe, Save the Children warns.
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The virus is a hemorrhagic fever and has claimed nearly 500 lives to date, with thousands of suspected cases. Alarmingly, the World Health Organization warns those figures could actually be 10 to 50 times higher.
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The outbreak is the largest to hit the region for 30 years and has all but emptied global emergency stocks of vaccines. There are only 7 million emergency vaccines available for this campaign ? too few to fully cover Kinshasa, let alone all of the DRC.
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http://www.savethechildren.org/site...c=8rKLIXMGIpI4E&b=9357115&ct=14917817¬oc=1
Media Contact
Erin Taylor 267.250.8829 (M)
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (August 16, 2016) ? The largest Yellow Fever epidemic in decades is hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Angola, and could soon spread to the Americas, Asia and Europe, Save the Children warns.
...
The virus is a hemorrhagic fever and has claimed nearly 500 lives to date, with thousands of suspected cases. Alarmingly, the World Health Organization warns those figures could actually be 10 to 50 times higher.
...
The outbreak is the largest to hit the region for 30 years and has all but emptied global emergency stocks of vaccines. There are only 7 million emergency vaccines available for this campaign ? too few to fully cover Kinshasa, let alone all of the DRC.
...
http://www.savethechildren.org/site...c=8rKLIXMGIpI4E&b=9357115&ct=14917817¬oc=1