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French charity appeals for vaccination money

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    The French Charity, Hopital Sans Frontieres (HSF) has appealed for money for its mass yellow fever vaccination effort in Guinea, the BBC reported on Wednesday. HSF said two million people were at risk from the illness, which has already claimed almost 200 lives since October 2000, the BBC reported. The Paris-based charity has already sent a 30-strong medical team to the region and has inoculated 500,000 people.

    Another charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, appealed on 20 December 2000 for a massive effort to deliver vaccines. MSF identified hundreds of cases of the disease in the districts of Mamou, Labbé and Kankan, including the towns of Kindia (83 km northeast of Conakry) and of Dubreka, 30 km northeast of the capital. MSF said, then, that the global mortality rate was around 40 percent, but could reach 80 percent.

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