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Yellow fever outbreak
kills 21 in Congo, WHO says
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[April 12, 2016]
GENEVA (Reuters) - Twenty-one
people have died of yellow fever in Democratic Republic of Congo, some
of them from infections contracted in neighboring Angola, the World
Health Organization said on Tuesday.
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 An outbreak has already killed 225 people and infected 1,600 in
Angola. There was now a high risk of further spread in Congo, given
the number of people who regularly travel between the two countries,
the WHO said.
(Reporting by Tom Miles)
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