/ 11 April 2001

KENYA RAISES ALARM ON HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER

KENYA’S health ministry has put in place emergency measures following the hospitalisation of a second patient suspected to be suffering from the deadly haemorrhagic fever. A statement said that a 19-year-old male recruit from Kiganjo Police Training College was admitted at the Mathari Mission Hospital in the central town of Nyeri on Sunday. The patient complained of malaise and headache for a week before he developed diarrhoea on Monday, the statement said, adding that he was stable and in isolation. A 24-year-old woman with symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, also a recruit at the police college, died on April 2, a day after she was admitted. – AFP