AT least 57 more people have died as an outbreak of a virulent strain of highland malaria spreads in southwestern Kenya. A clinical officer at Kilkoris government hospital, says another 30000 people have been affected by the disease in the remote Transmara district, about 240 kms west of Nairobi. A reporter who visited the region on Monday saw people trying to carry the ill to rural dispensaries by donkey or bicycle. About 200 people have already died in the outbreak that was first reported in the neighboring Kisii district two months ago. The government has been accused of failing to respond to the emergency and most of the hospitals and dispensaries have no drugs with which to treat malaria.