Sunday, 28 January 2018

Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps

By mid-January, there had been nearly 5,000 reported cases of diphtheria in the camps and 33 deaths.

Diphtheria is not seen in the West because almost everyone is vaccinated against it. But it's been infecting thousands of the refugees in Bangladesh.

(Image credit: Allison Joyce for NPR)



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