Kenya: Four dead in black fever outbreak

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Kenya: Four dead in black fever outbreak

Four people have died in an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease also known as kalazar or black fever, in Isiolo and Wajir in northeastern Kenya, according to a senior health official.

Shahnaaz Sharif, the senior deputy director of medical services in Kenya's health ministry, said 66 people had been infected in the outbreak that was first reported in Wajir in April 2008.

Sharif said the most affected age group was children between the age of one and five.

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