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Article: N.Tanzania warned against raw milk for Rift Valley Fever virus
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 20, 2007
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N.Tanzania warned against raw milk for Rift Valley Fever virus
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Health experts have warned
against drinking raw milk in northern Tanzania that borders Kenya
where the Rift Valley Fever has been affecting some of its regions,
local media reported Saturday.
Human consumption of untreated milk is feared to be another medium
through which the fever could be transmitted from animals to human
beings.
Though no case of the fever has been reported in the country,
Tanzania, especially the northern part bordering Kenya, has tightened
border controls against the spread of the disease.
Health and livestock authorities fear that if the disease should
spread into ...