KABUL: The United Nations said yesterday it was airlifting and driving medical supplies to remote mountain villages in north-eastern Afghanistan as a whooping cough epidemic spread and threatened the lives of 40,000 children.
WHO has estimated that over 60 children died after an outbreak of whooping cough in seven villages in the Badakhshan province in October, but it could only confirm 17 deaths in the barely accessible region.
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