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Home > Kenya: Measles outbreak alert as 14 children die

Contributor [1]
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 03:00
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Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
249 [3]
Article-Summary: 

After the deaths of 14 children in the last few months, health experts are now warning that Nairobi and several other districts could be on the verge of a measles outbreak. After the upsurge in cases and deaths caused by the highly infectious disease, the Government issued a red alert after three children died in Nairobi's Kayole estate last week. The children aged six, five and eight months died one after the other over a period of 10 days.

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Food & Health [4]
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Country: 
Kenya [6]

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