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Article: Tanzania on alert over Rift Valley Fever
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 15, 2007
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Tanzania on alert over Rift Valley Fever
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Health and livestock
authorities in northern Tanzania have been keeping close watch on the
border with Kenya in the wake of a fresh outbreak there of Rift
Valley Fever disease after a lull of nine years.
Local English broadsheet The Guardian on Monday reported that the
Northern Zone Veterinary Investigation Center had enhanced its
monitoring and had been maintaining tight restrictions along the
Tanzania-Kenya border.
The newspaper quoted Adam Mbise, the acting chief of the center,
as saying that round-the-clock surveillance had been on along the
border.
The health and livestock authorities have also warned the ...