DAKAR: A total of 20 people have died in Senegal in a Rift Valley fever outbreak which began in late September, the west African country’s health ministry said.
The viral disease, which mainly affects animals but also humans, has hit the northern Saint Louis region particularly hard, with 159 of 171 recorded cases occurring in the area, according to a statement Tuesday by the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene.
The ministry said the first laboratory confirmation of Rift Valley fever in the country occurred on September 20.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, Senegal has recorded “20 deaths and 128 recoveries,” it said in the statement.
Authorities have not released figures on the number of livestock killed by Rift Valley fever.
The most common symptoms of the disease include flu-like fever, muscle and joint pain, and headache in people, while in livestock, fever and bleeding are common.
Rift Valley fever outbreak kills 20 in Senegal
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Rift Valley fever outbreak kills 20 in Senegal
- The viral disease has hit the northern Saint Louis region particularly hard, with 159 of 171 recorded cases
- Since the beginning of the outbreak, Senegal has recorded “128 recoveries“
Trump ‘very disappointed’ with UK’s Starmer for blocking use of air bases, Telegraph says
- UK PM then said bases could be used in “defensive” operations
- Trump says it took “too long” for Starmer to change his mind
LONDON: Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed” with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not allowing the US to use the Diego Garcia air base to carry out strikes on Iran, the Daily Telegraph quoted the US president as saying in an interview.
Britain had reportedly initially denied the US permission to conduct air strikes from its bases, but on Sunday evening Starmer said he was accepting a request for their use in any “defensive” strikes the US wanted to make against Iranian targets.
In an interview published on Monday Trump told the British newspaper that it took “too long” for Starmer to change his mind.
“That’s probably never happened between our countries before,” he told the Telegraph, adding: “It sounds like he was worried about the legality.”
Trump said Starmer should have approved from the get-go the American use of Diego Garcia — a strategically important US-UK air base in the Indian Ocean — saying Iran was responsible for killing “a lot of people from your country.”
Britain was not involved in the joint US-Israel air strikes on Iran that killed the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday.
Since attacks on Iran started on Saturday, Iran has been targeting Gulf countries with missiles, and on Sunday an Iranian-made drone hit Britain’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus, causing limited damage and no casualties.
Trump said it was “useful” that the US would now be able to launch operations from Diego Garcia, as he also criticized a deal Starmer has made over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, where Diego Garcia is based.
