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Alarm over newborns with small heads at Coast

Source: Reiter and Walsh, PC.

Medical researchers have raised serious concerns over the high number of babies born with microcephaly (abnormally small heads) at the Coast.

Scientists at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) say almost two per cent of newborns at Kilifi County Hospital had microcephaly.

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