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Test To Properly Diagnose Fever In Children Needed 'Desperately'
"[F]ar too many children in Kenya and other African countries continue to suffer unnecessarily each year due to the misdiagnosis of fever, which contributes to the deaths of nearly three million children of less than five years of age from malaria and pneumonia," Willis Akhwale, head of Kenya's Department of Disease Prevention and Control in the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, writes in a Daily Nation opinion piece, saying that health care workers "desperately need a test that can quickly and accurately identify and distinguish between fever-causing diseases."
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