Thomson Reuters Foundation: Health workers sent to north Uganda as malaria epidemic kills over 650
“Uganda dispatched a team of more than 370 health workers to the northern part of the country on Monday where a malaria epidemic ravaging the region since July has killed about 658 people. Uganda reported an unusual outbreak of malaria in the north of the country in July, which health officials say has affected one million people from a population of about 39 million…” (Lirri, 2/1).