Yellow Fever -- Angola
Angola declared the end of the world's worst yellow fever epidemic in a generation on Friday [23 Dec 2016] after a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign of 25 million people that resulted in no new cases in 6 months.
The outbreak began a year ago [2015] in a slum in the capital, Luanda, before spreading throughout Angola, a war-scarred southeast African nation, and into neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. In all, more than 400 people died.
More than 15 million Angolans and 10 million
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2i1cupU
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