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Kemri deploys team to Marsabit to collect samples after deaths of nine people

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Samples have been sent for laboratory analysis at Kemri in Nairobi. [iStockphoto]

The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has dispatched a team of experts to Marsabit to collect samples for tests, following the deaths of nine people.

Two of the deaths were reported at the facility level, whereas nine others were reported at the community level, according to a report by the Department of Health.

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