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After four people died in Isiolo County, Kenya declared an outbreak of yellow fever. Fifteen others have also been diagnosed with the same and are recovering at a hospital.  Patrick Amoth, director general of Kenya's health ministry, while speaking to AFP said, "We have an additional death to the three that we had reported earlier." He further said that the risk of further spread is low as the outbreak is in a sparsely populated region.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- An outbreak of yellow fever, an acute and contagious viral disease, has claimed four lives in Kenya since it was first detected in January, the health ministry said Monday. The cases were reported in the pastoralist and remote county of Isiolo, some 270 kilometres (160 miles) nort

Kenya's Ministry of Health on Saturday reported a yellow fever outbreak in the northern county of Isiolo while three patients had succumbed to the highly infectious viral disease. Patrick Amoth, acting director-general for health in the Ministry of Health said in a statement issued in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital that…

The virus is endemic in tropical areas of Africa and Central and South America.

The virus is endemic in tropical areas of Africa and Central and South America.

Three people have died while more than 20 people have contracted yellow fever.

Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected Aedes mosquitoes.

Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected Aedes mosquitoes.

The Ministry of Health is working on a food safety bill that seeks to empower counties to conduct random tests on food in the market.

Stakeholders from different sectors have validated the Food Safety Bill 2021 that is aimed at safeguarding consumers' health and increasing Kenya’s produce access to the world market.