Yellow fever vaccination campaign in Kinshasa: More than 7 million vaccinated in 2 weeks

As the rainy season begins in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the biggest ever yellow fever emergency vaccination campaign in Africa is drawing to a close. More than 7 million people in Kinshasa province have been successfully vaccinated in the last 2 weeks. But in the country ’s remote areas on the Angola border, the campaign is still being rolled out, targeting a further 3 million people at risk with the aim of ending this outbreak of the potentially fatal disease.
Source: WHO Feature Stories - Category: Global & Universal Tags: yellow fever [subject], yellow fever [subject] Source Type: news