An outbreak of Rift Valley fever has claimed 25 lives in Kenya in the past week, bringing the death toll to 62 as the disease spreads, health officials said on Thursday.
The disease has infected nearly 200 people since an outbreak was first diagnosed in mid-December.
”Rift Valley fever is spreading wider,” said Omar Ahmed, the medical services chief in the country’s worst-hit North-eastern Province.
The Health Ministry said the disease has already spread to the Coast and Rift Valley provinces, threatening a countrywide explosion.
More people are being admitted to hospital with the disease, which is transmitted from livestock to humans by mosquitoes and characterised by fever and vomiting of blood, the officials said. — Sapa-AFP