GUINEA: Yellow fever outbreak

GUINEA: Yellow fever outbreak

Guinea is appealing for international help to eradicate yellow fever
following an outbreak that has claimed 24 lives since it was detected on 1
September, AFP quoted Guinea's health minister, Mamadou Saliou Diallo, as
saying on Saturday.

He said 75 percent of the 32 cases registered in a hospital in Mamou, some
280 km east of Conakry, had died, and that the government had taken
emergency measures since the disease was confirmed by the Pasteur Institute
in Dakar and Paris, where samples had been sent.

A yellow fever and diarrhoea epidemic claimed about 100 lives in Guinea last
year, AFP said, quoting medical sources.