in downtown Freetown.

in downtown Freetown.
A overall health worker administers a yellow fever vaccine to a baby over a roadside in Abidjan, Ivory Coast after a situation was discovered of yellow fever (File)
Kuyatay is one of more than four million Sierra Leoneans targeted for a free ten-year vaccine towards the disease this week.
Amara Jambai is director of disease prevention and control at the Sierra Leone Ministry of Wellness.  He says the campaign is the first of its kind.
Sierra Leone is one of the nations with the highest threat, Liberia and then Benin. So we are doing this marketing campaign so as to minimize the risk of having a full-blown outbreak of yellow fever, Jambai said.
Jambai says Import 8 pin Socket after cases of yellow fever AUDI 2X2 adapter cable showed up in November 2008 in the forested Southern regions of Bo and Kenema, the government acted quickly to protect the entire populace.
Yellow fever is a viral disease affecting the liver and kidneys, causing large fever and a yellowing of the skin and eyes.  It is transmitted by infected mosquitoes and is endemic to many West African countries.  More than 200,000 people die of yellow fever every year.  Although there is no cure, the vaccine is relatively cheap and highly effective.
Jambai says it was difficult to get hold of so many vaccines so quickly.
The initial marketing campaign was in five districts in May and this is the second component of that marketing campaign now, because the populace we are targeting had been so many. Now, during this present campaign, we are targeting about 2.4-million people, including the Western Urban - and you can imagine what it is like in this capital, Freetown, bursting with a lot of activities, Jambai said.
Haja Kutulmi Karim is health coordinator at Sierra Leone's Red Cross Society, which is assisting the government with the campaign.  She says it is an enormous task to make sure everyone comes to get their vaccination.
We ended up able to train 300 volunteers who are doing house-to-house visits to mobilize people and tell them