Rwanda: Country Free of Yellow Fever - Official

8 September 2011

Kigali — There has been no case of yellow fever in Rwanda since the 1950s.This was disclosed by Dr. Thierry Nyatanyi, the Head of Division, Epidemic Infectious Diseases at Rwanda Biomedical Centre.

He was reacting to a recent 2011 report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which said that Rwanda was one of the countries with a risk of yellow fever transmission.

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