Since the beginning of August, Senegal has been facing an upsurge in cases of diphtheria, a disease that has been largely contained in vaccination in recent decades. The Ministry of Health and Public Health made a state of affairs on 4 September, detailing the scale of the epidemic and the response measures deployed. Here is the essential thing to know. The alert was triggered at the end of July, after a series of deaths of children under five y…
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Since the beginning of August, Senegal has been facing an upsurge in cases of diphtheria, a disease that has been largely contained in vaccination in recent decades. The Ministry of Health and Public Health made a state of affairs on 4 September, detailing the scale of the epidemic and the response measures deployed. Here is the essential thing to know. The alert was triggered at the end of July, after a series of deaths of children under five y…