Algeria Hit by Plague Outbreak

World | July 11, 2003, Friday // 00:00

UN health officials are helping Algeria to investigate an outbreak of plague in the west of the country which has claimed at least one life.
A team from the World Health Organization and other international bodies went to the Oran region after reports of plague emerged last month. Algeria's health ministry has announced 10 laboratory-confirmed cases to date and one probable case. France, the former colonial power which has a large ethnic Algerian community, has tightened sanitary controls at its ports to guard against contaminated rats and insects.

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