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Alarm over disease outbreaks in counties amid biting strike

Nurses from Nakuru County demonstrate on February 18. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

Kenya has been hit by a wave of preventable disease outbreaks as effects of recurrent health workers’ strikes bite.

The current disease outbreak report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) released on Monday shows Kenya reeling under the pressure of serious outbreaks of cholera, measles, Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and dengue fever.

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