What's going on? Niger & Mali Epidemics

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WHO Warns of Epidemics in Niger By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 July 2005 in VOANEWS.COM

World Health Organization (WHO) warns the food crisis affecting Niger is putting people at greater risk of epidemics. The health agency has sent medical experts to the country to help head-off deadly outbreaks of communicable diseases.

The World Health Organization says Niger's food shortages have weakened peoples' resistance to disease. As a consequence, it says it expects an increase in the number of communicable diseases and deaths.

WHO Emergency Medical Expert, Pinot Annunziata, says many of these diseases will result from poor water and sanitation. He says people will die from diarrhea, malaria or measles. He says some parts of Niger already are gripped by cholera, and 49 people have been reported sick.

"And, we have already five deaths which means, in our language, a case fatality rate that is particularly high, which is more than 10 percent," he said. "You are expecting one, two percent of number of deaths versus the number of cases. In this case, it is already 10 and this is already an indicator that those diseases are affecting very weak human bodies, basically."

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Food crisis could affect Mali

Niger y Mali: La vergüenza del slilencio en Ayuda contra el hambre "en la zona norte de Malí y en las regiones de Tahoua y Maradi en Níger, más de uno de cada tres niños menores de cinco años sufre desnutrición aguda."