28 NOVEMBER 1997. KENYA. CLIMATE (FLOODING)

Reuters reported that six drowned and 500 were homeless after heavy rains in coastal and NE Kenya, near Garissa. By 9 December, 12 people or more were reported to have died of diarrhea in the past 48 hours. Thousands of livestock were killed and the area remains cut off from the rest of Kenya.--based on a report by Reuters, forwarded by C. W. Gilbert <blazing@igc.apc.org> and a report PANA (http://www.africanews.org/science) sent by Luiz Jacintho da Silva <luisjs@correionet.com.br> to promed@usa.healthnet.org.

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