Rift Valley Fever -- Niger
In an update on the Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreak in western Niger, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the case tally at 90, including 28 deaths, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation report. The outbreak started in August [2016] in the Tahoua region.
The fear from UN health officials is that the viral disease my spread in West Africa. "Herders migrating with infected livestock pose the biggest risk of the epidemic crossing borders," Oumarou Maidadji, medical coordinator for
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