Disease

Yellow fever - Update

Yellow fever has now killed 356 people in Angola and infected more than 3,400 infected since late last year, according to World Health Organization (WHO) and Angolan government figures.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which shares a frontier to the northeast of Angola, suspected cases numbered about 1,307 and deaths 75 as of late June, according to the WHO.

Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne haemorrhagic virus and has death rates as high as 75 percent but can be prevented with a vaccine. More than 11 million yellow fever vaccines have been administered in Angola between Dec. 5, 2015 and July 5, 2016.