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August 16, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Toll From Madagascar Flu Epidemic Nears 400"
Reuters ( www.reuters.com ) (08/14/02)
Health officials in Madagascar announced Tuesday that an
influenza epidemic in the country has taken the lives of 399
people in three weeks, with over 5,600 others infected. The
hardest hit provinces in the country--one of the poorest in the
world--are Fianarantsoa in the south and Toamasina on the east
coast of the island. Testing has confirmed that the strain
involved in the epidemic is type A influenza.
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