Abidjan - A yellow fever outbreak has killed at least 15 people in Ivory Coast and threatens many more in the West African country. The UN's World Health Organisation appealed for funds to help the government vaccinate three million people.
The mosquito-borne virus thrives in densely populated areas like Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan.
Officials told Reuters that as well as the vaccination campaign, teams would also be sent out to clean up the drainage ditches and other places where the mosquitoes that transmit the virus breed.