Abstract

As malaria recedes among peoples living in Senegal and nearby West African countries, other infectious diseases are posing new public health challenges, according to Didier Raoult of the University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille in France. “We identified 30 to 50% of the nonmalarial causes of fever in these areas, starting from 2007,” he said during the annual meeting of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies in Geneva last June. While much of his efforts focus on Senegal, similar conditions and findings pertain to nearby Congo.

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