The outbreak, which was initially detected in the Savanna Region, has now spread to the Wa East District in the Upper West Region, and last Tuesday, two more persons died at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital in the Bono Region.
The two were among three cases which had been referred from the neighbouring Bole-Bamboi District in the Savanna Region to the Wenchi facility.
The Wenchi Municipal Director of Health, Mr Robert Kwaku Bio, who confirmed the deaths to the Daily Graphic, explained that blood samples of the three were confirmed at the Public Health Reference Laboratory at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and another one in Dakar, Senegal, as yellow fever.
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