Burkina Faso: Five Million At Risk As Meningitis Death Toll Climbs

Ouagadougou — Amid warnings of a major meningitis outbreak in Africa this year, epidemic levels of the bacterial infection have broken out in parts of Burkina Faso.

"Despite the efforts of the government and its partners in 2008, the vaccination campaign did not reach all the districts currently facing the outbreak," Alain Yoda, Burkina Faso's Minister of health said in a press conference in early January.

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