Published Date: 1997-02-15 23:50:00
Subject: PRO/EDR> Typhus, louse-borne? - Burundi
Archive Number: 19970215.0384

TYPHUS, LOUSE-BORNE? - BURUNDI
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:08:51 -0800
From: "Dr. James Chin" <jchin@cdpc.com>

CDPC E-mail Service - February 14, 1997
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February 14, 1997 - From News Media Sources
Typhus epidemics sweeping through camps in Burundi:
WHO announced on Friday that typhus epidemics, apparently louse-borne,
are sweeping through camps in four provinces of Burundi for displaced
and "regrouped" people.
The typhus rate soared in October [1996] when troops
began "regrouping" villagers in camps, officially to protect them from
Hutu rebels. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 people -- mainly of the
Tutsi minority -- who were displaced by fighting in the last three years
live in camps protected by the army in Burundi. In addition 200,000
Tutsis and Hutus had been regrouped in camps in three provinces by the
army since October. The troops forced the mainly Hutu peasants out of
their homes in the hills and into the camps.
.........................................................jw

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