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On 22 September 2005, WHO received reports of an outbreak of yellow fever in the Banfora, Batie and Gaoua districts located in the southeast of Burkina Faso on the border with Cote d'Ivoire. Four cases, including 1 death, have been laboratory-confirmed by Centre Muraz (Burkina Faso) and by the WHO Collaborating centre for yellow fever, the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal. The fatal case, a boy of 4 years old, came from Bouna region in Cote d'Ivoire.
A team from the Ministry of Health and WHO in Burkina Faso and a team from the Ministry of Health, WHO and UNICEF in Cote d'Ivoire quickly investigated the outbreak in this cross-border area that is characterized by …