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Date Posted: 00:18:14 09/03/02 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Madagascar flu

Death Toll Jumps in Madagascar Flu Epidemic

GENEVA (Reuters) Aug 27 - The death toll in Madagascar's flu epidemic has surged in the past 2 weeks to 671, with reported cases nearly doubling to 22,646, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
The Geneva-based agency said the outbreak was affecting five out of the country's six provinces, with the worst hit area being Fianarantsao in the south.

The WHO said on August 13 that 444 had died and a further 13,300 cases had been reported since the illness appeared in July.

But a WHO spokeswoman said that the rise in recent days could, in part, simply reflect better monitoring of the situation by health officials.

"The explanation ... could be improved surveillance between the ministry and the WHO," spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told reporters.

A WHO team of experts is in Madagascar advising the Health Ministry on measures needed to contain the epidemic.

Samples taken from victims of the disease have shown it to be type A influenza.

Madagascar has only just emerged from 6 months of political crisis, which devastated the already shaking economy of the island of 16 million people off southeast Africa.




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