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More deaths from meningitis

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    The meningitis death toll has continued to rise in Burkina Faso despite assurances last week by health authorities that the epidemic was regressing. The Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that deaths had risen to 1,379, out of 9623 cases. Last week the death toll had passed the 1,000 mark for the first time this year. “Our main problem is that we do not have enough doses of vaccines to have everybody vaccinated in the districts at the same time,” the secretary-general of the health ministry, Mathias Some,told IRIN. [See separate item titled ‘BURKINA FASO: Meningitis death toll still rising’]

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