Deadly yellow fever epidemic flares up in Angola

 

People have been queuing up in parts of the capital, Luanda to receive the yellow fever vaccine

At least 50 people killed and 241 infected in the first outbreak of the disease in the country in 30 years.

A yellow fever outbreak in Angola has killed 51 people, in the first epidemic of the disease to hit the country in 30 years, official statistics showed on Monday.
A total of 241 people were now infected, the southern African country's national director of public health, Adelaide de Carvalho, said. More than 450,000 people had been vaccinated in the capital of a target of nearly 1.6 million, Carvalho added.

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