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September 25, 2002

 

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

 

"Angola: Measles Kills Children in Chibia"

Africa News Service (www.allafrica.com) (09/24/02)

 

A new outbreak of measles in Angola's Chibia district has infected 15 people and claimed the lives of eight children under the age of nine years in the last 20 days.  Chibia deputy administrator Ambrisio Chitanda says local health authorities are running out of both measles treatments and measles vaccines.

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