AFRICA – One out of 5 people with Ebola is a child

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - 20% of cases of Ebola recorded so far in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are children. Ebola continues to be a tragic reality for nine million children living in infected areas.
Besides monitoring the ebola virus, humanitarian health organizations have been engaged in the vaccination of thousands of children against other deadly diseases such as measles; have strengthened the health care assistance; have helped to minimize the risk of infection of Ebola with the reopening of schools for more than 5 million children who remained at home for several months. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 18/03/2015)


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