Health and Fitness

UN Warns of Rising Death Rates Among Somali Children as Disease Takes a Toll

Somalia–(ENEWSPF)–16 August 2011. 

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A group of Somali women and children wait to be registered at the transit centre in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia

Death rates among Somali refugees who have entered Ethiopia to seek succour from famine has reached alarming levels, the United Nations refugee agency reported today, saying that while malnutrition was the greatest concern, a suspected outbreak of measles was responsible for many deaths.

An assessment of the mortality rate in one of four…

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