Mutant virus fears as fever kills hundreds
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25/01/1998
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Hindu (New Delhi)
Experts have confirmed the spread of a deadly haemorragic fever, that has already killed hundreds of people in north-eastern Kenya, to areas within 100 miles of the capital, Nairobi.Five deaths from the disease, diagnosed as Rift Valley Fever, have been reported in Magadi in Kajiado district, south of Nairobi and near the border with Tanzania.