At least seven dead in Congo Fever outbreak in Mali

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An outbreak of Congo fever kills at least seven people in a village in central Mali

In this photo taken Saturday, October 25, 2014, a health worker, right, briefs another, left, before working at an Ebola virus center in Kayes, Mali.

Yacouba Maiga, the spokesperson for the regional government of the central Mopti region, said that a shepherd "contracted the illness from an ox" in the village of Samoa in late January. Two other patients died while being transported to the town of Sevare, in central Mali, for treatment. Congo fever is a tick-borne viral disease which causes severe haemorrhaging, according to the World Health Organization.

 

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