A meningitis epidemic that broke out in January in Niger has so far killed 45 people, the health minister told AFP on Saturday. "From January 1 to March 29, 2015, some 345 cases of meningitis, including 45 fatalities, have been reported, which is a fatality rate of 15.3 percent," the minister, Mano Aghali, said. Niger has distributed 13,500 doses of the vaccine and medicines are being administered free of charge within zones suffering from the epidemic. Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, is frequently prone to meningitis epidemics.
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