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Yellow fever outbreak kills 21 in Congo, WHO says

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Twenty-one people have died of yellow fever in Democratic Republic of Congo, some of them from infections contracted in neighbouring Angola, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

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An outbreak has already killed 225 people and infected 1,600 in Angola.

There was now a high risk of further spread in Congo, given the number of people who regularly travel between the two countries, the WHO said.

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