Burkina Faso: Meningitis Killed 816

Meningitis has killed more than 800 people in the impoverished West African country of Burkina Faso since the start of the year, health officials said on Monday, double the death toll given two months ago. Like its neighbours in Africa's "meningitis belt" stretching from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, the landlocked country is often struck by outbreaks of the disease in the early months of the year.