About 60,000 Liberians have received vaccinations for yellow fever, following an outbreak in the west of the country last month. Some 150,000 people are targeted for vaccination.
There have been 102 cases of yellow fever reported in Liberia and four people have died, Dr. Mamadou Kone, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) medical team that fights epidemics in the region, told IRIN on Thursday.
Cases were initially reported in the county of Grand Cape Mount, which borders Sierra Leone, but infections spread to the east and south. The last yellow fever epidemic in Liberia was in 1997 but few deaths were reported. Like malaria, the mosquito-borne disease is more likely to break out during the rainy season.
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