More than twenty years after its last epidemic, Senegal again faces diphtheria. At the end of July 2026, at the regional hospital in Kédougou, in the east of Senegal, several children under five years of age died, with signs of respiratory diphtheria. On August 1st, the Institut Pasteur in Dakar confirmed that...
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More than twenty years after its last epidemic, Senegal again faces diphtheria. At the end of July 2026, at the regional hospital in Kédougou, in the east of Senegal, several children under five years of age died, with signs of respiratory diphtheria. On August 1st, the Institut Pasteur in Dakar confirmed that...