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GUINEA-BISSAU - 24/7/2008 14.43
CHOLERA CASE OF INCREASE IN THE COUNTRY
Medicine and Health, Brief
It would already 344 new cases of cholera registered in this month in Guinea-Bissau, like other African countries particularly vulnerable to the spread of disease due to poor sanitary conditions and a chronic shortage of drinking water.
According to the leaders of the hospital for rehydration national Bissau, between 18 and July 20 were established 88 new episodes of contagion.
To confirm the seriousness of the situation is the local office of the UN Fund for Children (UNICEF): from the beginning of the year 611 cases, 19 of them fatal, were recorded "throughout the country."
Cholera is considered in Guinea-Bissau an endemic disease; second international estimates, in 2005 the last outbreak caused 400 deaths.
A year ago a report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed as 90% of cases of cholera occur normally in Africa, often due to the use of stagnant water wells, the disease takes the form of a 'Acute intestinal infection that causes diarrhoea and vomiting and can lead to death from dehydration.
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CHOLERA CASE OF INCREASE IN THE COUNTRY
Medicine and Health, Brief
It would already 344 new cases of cholera registered in this month in Guinea-Bissau, like other African countries particularly vulnerable to the spread of disease due to poor sanitary conditions and a chronic shortage of drinking water.
According to the leaders of the hospital for rehydration national Bissau, between 18 and July 20 were established 88 new episodes of contagion.
To confirm the seriousness of the situation is the local office of the UN Fund for Children (UNICEF): from the beginning of the year 611 cases, 19 of them fatal, were recorded "throughout the country."
Cholera is considered in Guinea-Bissau an endemic disease; second international estimates, in 2005 the last outbreak caused 400 deaths.
A year ago a report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed as 90% of cases of cholera occur normally in Africa, often due to the use of stagnant water wells, the disease takes the form of a 'Acute intestinal infection that causes diarrhoea and vomiting and can lead to death from dehydration.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=notiziaTesto colSpan=3>?The cholera outbreak has reached alarming proportions and we are no longer able to contain it?, a spokesperson for the Guinea Bissau Health ministry said yesterday. In a statement read over the state radio, the official called for international aid to confront the epidemic that broke out in the past days and is rapidly spreading in the capital and another two regions of the nation. In the statement ? in which the international community is called to intervene ?before it is too late? ? the ministry specified that the cholera outbreak has registered 2,200 cases and 53 confirmed deaths. Local sources however fear that the toll of the epidemic is much higher. Just in the capital, 1,635 cases and 15 deaths were registered, while an alert was launched by the main hospital of the capital over a shortage of the necessary medicines. Also the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) expressed grave concern at the rapid spread of the epidemic in Bissau and the regions of Quinara, in the south, and Biombo, in the west.
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