Hepatitis E -- Namibia
During the month of June 2019, hepatitis E virus (HEV), which has spread like wildfire through Namibia's sewer-deep informal settlements, carried on unabated, with 113 cases reported countrywide. So far, 45 [persons] have perished since [the outbreak started] in September 2017. From the 45 lives lost, 20 maternal deaths have been reported, signifying the much-extended grave impact that the disease has on Namibia, with newborn babies and children being orphaned due to insatiable spread of the
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