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CHOLERA, DIARRHEA AND DYSENTERY UPDATE 2009 (25)
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In this update:
Africa
[1] Cholera - Uganda (Kampala)
[2] Cholera - Tanzania (Tanga)
[3] Cholera - Mozambique (Cabo Delgado)
[4] Cholera - Cameroon (north)
[5] Cholera - Nigeria (Taraba, Adamawa, Jigawa)
[6] Cholera - Nigeria (Borno)
[7], [8] Cholera - Kenya (Eastern province)
[9] Cholera - Congo DR (South Kivu)
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[1] Cholera - Uganda (Kampala)
Date: Wed 7 Oct 2009
Source: The Monitor [edited]
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200910070064.html>
3 people have been confirmed dead and 13 others are hospitalized at
Mulago cholera treatment centre following an outbreak in Kampala last
week. Kampala City Council Health officer, Dr Messach Mubiru, told
the Daily Monitor yesterday [6 Oct 2009] that 1 person died from
Mulago Hospital and the other 2 from Namuwongo. He cautioned people
especially from the slum areas to stop from eating cold food and
drinks vended on the streets.
[Byline: Stephen Otage]
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[2] Cholera - Tanzania (Tanga)
Date: Wed 7 Oct 2009
Source: Independent Online [edited]
<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=nw20091005223236437C695254&set_id=>
12 people have died in a cholera epidemic in Tanzania over the past
week, with most cases recorded in the north of the country, a health
ministry spokesperson said on Monday [5 Oct 2009].
Around 600 cases were reported in the east African country during the
last 7 days, but Handeni district in the northeastern region of Tanga
was hardest hit with 511 patients, spokesperson Nsachris Mwamaja told
journalists.
"The government is doing all it can to check further spread of the
water-borne disease and treat patients by ensuring adequate supply of
medicines," Mwamaja said.
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[Tanga is in northeastern Tanzania opposite the semiautonomous
islands of Zanzibar where outbreaks of cholera have occurred
sporadically in the past. The areas can be seen on a map at:
<http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/tanzania.pdf>. - Mod.LL]
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[3] Cholera - Mozambique (Cabo Delgado)
Date: Tue 6 Oct 2009
Source: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (AIM) [edited]
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200910060984.html>
5 members of the same family died of cholera on 3 consecutive days in
Nazimoja village, Montepuez district, in the northern Mozambican
province of Cabo Delgado, reports Tuesday [6 Oct 2009]'s issue of the
independent daily "O Pais."
According to a resident of that village, many people have been
suffering from the disease, which was initially shrugged off as
simple bouts of diarrhea and vomiting. However, the health
authorities have confirmed that this is cholera. The disease was also
reported in Napai, and Nacate, suburbs of the Montepuez town, where
it has killed at least 4 people.
By 28 Sep 2009, the Montepuez District Hospital had recorded 106
cases of cholera, and 3 of them were still under medical care in a
serious condition. The Cabo Delgado chief doctor Cesario Sauegi
confirmed these facts, adding that the disease has also been reported
in the districts of Mocimboa da Praia, and Ancuabe.
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[4] Cholera - Cameroon (north)
Date: Tue 6 Oct 2009
Source: Reuters [edited]
<http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE5950E420091006>
A cholera outbreak in northern Cameroon has killed 15 people, state
media reported on Tuesday [6 Oct 2009]. Cameroonian authorities are
taking measures to contain the epidemic, which was brought in from
neighboring Nigeria, state radio and the official Cameroon Tribune said.
"The disease was imported from neighboring Nigeria by a lady who
visited the country recently," the Tribune said. "She died after
suffering from diarrhea and vomiting and her dresses were washed in a
stream used by local inhabitants, thereby contaminating everybody."
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[5] Cholera - Nigeria (Taraba, Adamawa, Jigawa)
Date: Fri 2 Oct 2009
Source: News24 [edited]
<http://www.news24.com/Content/Africa/News/965/17c0d80a60d34709bc28372ff58f223c/02-10-2009-08-38/Cholera_death_toll_hits_97>
9 people died and several others were hospitalized this week
following a cholera outbreak in Nigeria's northern Taraba State,
bringing the death toll in the region to 97, an official said on
Thursday [1 Oct 2009].
"We have recorded cases of cholera here in Jalingo (the capital) in
the past 2 days in which 9 people have died and several others
hospitalized at the State Specialist Hospital," the state health
commissioner, Muhammad Bose, said. "I can't give exact figures of
those hospitalized because we are still collating the number of cases
but we have sent health personnel and drugs to the 3 affected
neighborhoods in the metropolis," Bose said by telephone from Jalingo.
On Wednesday [31 Sep 2009] health officials in Jigawa State, also in
the region, announced the death of 11 people following an outbreak of
cholera in Bashuri village where 400 cases emerged in under a
fortnight [less than two weeks]. Health officials were still
investigating the cause of the outbreak, Bose said.
Cholera has claimed 77 lives in recent weeks in Adamawa State,
leaving nearly 1000 people hospitalized. "At the moment we have
recorded 77 deaths and 934 cases in the cholera outbreak," said
Adamawa information commissioner Musa Bubakari by telephone from
Yola, the state capital, which shares border with Taraba state.
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[The Taraba and Adamawa states as well as Borno (see next posting)
all lie in eastern Nigeria and border with Cameroon. The Jigawa state
is more central. A map of Nigeria showing the mentioned areas can be found at:
<http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/nigeria.pdf>. - Mod.LL]
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[6] Cholera - Nigeria (Borno)
Date: Mon 5 Oct 2009
Source: NEXT [edited]
<http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5466969-146/story.csp>
23 of the 600 people who recently contracted cholera in the Biu Local
Government area of Borno State are dead, the director of disease
control in the Borno State ministry of health, Abdullah Sadiq, has
said. Mr. Sadiq, who was at the cholera isolation camp situated in
Biu, last Sunday [4 Oct 2009] when NEXT visited, said some of the
patients were already treated and discharged. About 60 patients are
currently on admission, where oral therapy is being administered on them.
The Borno health official, who blamed the outbreak on the poor
sanitary habits of some residents of the area, also revealed that
specimen analysis at the Maiduguri Teaching hospital confirmed that
the disease is indeed cholera.
A source at the ministry of health said the disease has spread to 6
out of the 9 local government areas of southern Borno. The state has
also recorded a total of 32 death from it.
[Byline: Saadatu Muhammed]
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[7] Cholera - Kenya (Eastern province)
Date: Fri 2 Oct 2009
Source: The Nation [edited]
<http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/666776/-/ungkl2/-/>
A team from Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) has camped in Marsabit
South district to avert the spread of cholera, which has left 15
people dead. MSF, also known as Doctors without Borders, had
disbanded its 1st camp on 24 Sep 2009 at Moite village in
Loiyangalani division where 11 people died from the disease. The same
disease started to spread in El-Molo Bay location. In 3 days, 3
people had succumbed to cholera. At the same time, a pregnant woman
succumbed to the disease in Moite village.
"Those who have died in El-Molo Bay are children under 15 years. We
also have others who are admitted and the disease is spreading fast
to other areas," local public health officer Lemaiyon Lenamira told
the Nation by telephone. He said a doctor from MSF and a medical
staff from the office of the local Medical Officer of Health (MOH)
have been sent to Moite to assess the situation following the death
of the pregnant woman. He added that their report will determine
whether they will return to the place.
Cholera had been reported in Marsabit South district earlier in 2009
when 18 people died after contracting it.
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[8] Cholera - Kenya (Eastern province)
Date: Wed 7 Oct 2009
Source: Daily Nation [edited]
<http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/669538/-/unilv6/-/>
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Mutomo District has risen
to 7, with more infections being recorded every day. The 7 died at
Mutomo Mission Hospital where they were being treated. The deaths
came as health authorities disclosed that 1134 people had been
diagnosed with the disease in the district.
Since 29 Sep 2009, Medecins Sans Frontieres, working with the
Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation have treated 47 people in El
Molo and 157 in Loyangalani for the disease.
[Byline: Kitavi Mutua, Kibiwott Koross and Cynthia Vukets]
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[9] Cholera - Congo DR (South Kivu)
Date: Thu 1 Oct 2009
Source: XinHuaNet [edited]
<http://news.runsky.com/2009-10/01/content_3398233.htm>
Congo (DRC) recently (released by the health department) said an
outbreak of cholera in the eastern part of South Kivu has already
7079 people infected, with 82 people dead.
The health sector said cholera outbreak has now spread to 34
districts of the province's 10 districts and the provincial capital
city of Bukavu.
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[The interactive HealthMap/ProMED map of Africa is available at:
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[see also:
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2009 (24) 20090930.3411
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2009 (23) 20090921.3319
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2009 (22) 20090913.3223
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2009 (21) 20090819.2939
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2009 (20) 20090724.2616
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2009 (10) 20090126.0355
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2009 (01) 20090102.0015
2008
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Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2008 (57) 20081231.4125
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2008 (50) 20081208.3854
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2008 (30) 20080702.2019
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2008 (10) 20080212.0563
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2008 (01) 20080104.0047
2007
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Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2007 (67) 20071231.4200
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2007 (60) 20071126.3824
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2007 (40) 20070924.3164
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2007 (20) 20070511.1509
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2007 (01) 20070105.0047
2006
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Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2006 (52) 20061229.3646
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2006 (50) 20061215.3528
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2006 (30) 20060724.2037
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2006 (10) 20060303.0675
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2006 (01) 20060106.0040]
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