Twenty-one people have died of yellow fever in
Democratic Republic of Congo, some of them from infections
contracted in neighbouring Angola, the World Health
Organization said on Tuesday.
An outbreak has already killed 225 people and infected 1,600 in
Angola. There was now a high risk of further spread in Congo, given the number
of people who regularly travel between the two countries, the WHO said.
A WHO official on March 18 said an outbreak, which broke out
late last year, had killed 158 people in Angola.
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