Kenya: Eight More Perish As Killer Disease Spreads

27 December 2006

Nairobi — Eight more people died from the Rift Valley Fever over the Christmas, raising the death toll to 19.

A senior Health ministry official, Dr Shahnaaz Sharif, said yesterday that 19 other new cases of infections had been reported in the North Eastern Province, which is hard hit by the disease.

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