Eastern Africa : Kenya, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi
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This chapter describes the development of smallpox eradication programmes in 5 contiguous countries of eastern AfricaBurundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania' (Fig. 19 .1). In 1970 their combined population amounted to 42 million and their total land area to 1 818 000 square kilometres . In comparison, adjacent Zaire to the west had half as large a population in 1970 but an area 25% greater. The infrastructure of transport and communication services was better developed than in the countries of western and central Africa ; moreover, government and private
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