Malaria

Dozens dead in outbreak in Kenya

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 6th, 2002

An outbreak of malaria has killed dozens of people and infected thousands in western Kenya, where warm and wet conditions have helped the disease flourish where it normally doesn't strike, experts said July 9, 2002.

Many hospitals in the highlands of Rift Valley and Nyanza provinces, 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, were overflowing with patients and mobile clinics were dispatched to the hardest-hit areas, said Dr. Sam Ochola, director of Kenya's malaria control program.

Ochola said authorities were still compiling figures in some areas, but that dozens had died and thousands had been infected in the previous two weeks.

"All of the...

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