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Kenya Says Rift Valley Fever Returns, Two Dead
KENYA: September 21, 2007
NAIROBI - Rift Valley fever has killed two women in Kenya, the government said on Thursday, raising fears of another outbreak of the disease that claimed more than 150 lives earlier this year.
Officials had first worried that the two women who died in Nakuru district, a tourist hotspot, had the Ebola virus, which broke out last week in nearby Democratic Republic of Congo.
“This is not an Ebola outbreak, it is Rift Valley fever,” government spokesman Alfred Mutua told reporters in Nairobi.
Transmitted to humans by mosquito bites or close contact with contaminated animals, Rift Valley fever can cause havoc in Kenya’s important meat trade.