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Anthropologists heading to DRC to ease Ebola vaccination
2018-05-23 11:39
African health authorities said Tuesday they are preparing to send anthropologists to Democratic Republic of Congo to ensure a vaccination campaign against a deadly Ebola outbreak runs smoothly.
"If we do not handle communication well, the vaccination programme may suffer," John Nkengasong, head of Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC), told reporters in Geneva.
"So we are also assessing how in the next two weeks or so to deploy anthropologists to support the vaccine efforts," he said.
His comments came a day after the Congolese government began using a prototype vaccine as part of a bid to contain and roll back the outbreak that has killed 27 people.
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https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/anthropologists-heading-to-drc-to-ease-ebola-vaccination-20180523