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Cholera outbreak still a big threat, Zanzibar warns
ISSA YUSSUF in Zanzibar
27 January 2016
THE Ministry of Health has urged the public to adhere to good hygiene practices so as to contain the spread of cholera which has so far infected more than 1,300 people and already claimed the lives of at least 16 dead.
Cholera broke out in the Islands last September as a result of contaminated water in the wells, widely used by the people in the upcountry areas. According to the Unguja Island medical superitendent, Dr Fadhil Mohamed, cholera cases are still being reported on both Unguja and Pemba.
?There has been fluctuation of cholera patients. At the beginning the number of patients brought to treatment camps was between two and four people daily, before shooting to ten people last month. Now it has dropped to between two and three people,? Dr Mohamed said...
Cholera outbreak still a big threat, Zanzibar warns
ISSA YUSSUF in Zanzibar
27 January 2016
THE Ministry of Health has urged the public to adhere to good hygiene practices so as to contain the spread of cholera which has so far infected more than 1,300 people and already claimed the lives of at least 16 dead.
Cholera broke out in the Islands last September as a result of contaminated water in the wells, widely used by the people in the upcountry areas. According to the Unguja Island medical superitendent, Dr Fadhil Mohamed, cholera cases are still being reported on both Unguja and Pemba.
?There has been fluctuation of cholera patients. At the beginning the number of patients brought to treatment camps was between two and four people daily, before shooting to ten people last month. Now it has dropped to between two and three people,? Dr Mohamed said...
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