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WHO says Angola, Congo yellow fever outbreak under control

WHO says Angola, Congo yellow fever outbreak under control

By REUTERS

A Congolese health worker prepares to vaccinate a resident against yellow fever outside a church in Gombe district of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, on August 17, 2016. Photo: Reuters

GENEVA: A yellow fever outbreak in Angola and Congo has been brought under control by a major vaccination campaign, the head of pandemic and epidemic diseases at the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. Sylvie Briand told a UN briefing in Geneva that the level of vaccinations in Angola, as well as in Kinshasa and border regions, meant that there was no risk of a major outbreak there, although there were still 32 endemic countries in Africa, so further outbreaks could not be ruled out.