{"id":96699,"date":"2016-05-20T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96699"},"modified":"2016-05-20T06:34:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:34:59","slug":"john-rivers-notice-that-everyone-just-assumes-africa-cant-deal-with-the-problem-themselves-because-they-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96699","title":{"rendered":"John Rivers: ‘Notice that everyone just assumes Africa can’t deal with the problem themselves. Because they can’t.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yellow fever outbreaks in Africa need action, mass vaccination: WHO<\/a><\/p>\n

Outbreaks of deadly yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo do not constitute a global health emergency but require stepped-up control measures and mass vaccination, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The disease, which has a high fatality rate, has already spread to Kenya and China and there is an unrelated outbreak in Uganda, generating fears of the mosquito-borne disease jumping to sprawling cities in Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n

“This can be a devastating disease with rapid spread particularly in urban areas,” Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO executive director of outbreaks and health emergencies, said after its emergency committee on yellow fever held a first meeting.<\/p>\n

“The big push really is around surveillance and laboratory diagnostics capacity so that if people start turning yellow and dying, you get diagnostics rapidly and vaccination,” Aylward told Reuters.<\/p>\n

The more than 2,400 suspect cases and 300 deaths in just four months in Angola “reinforced the potentially explosive nature of this disease and the risk internationally”, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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