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  • #16
    Source: http://www.znbc.co.zm/?p=35826

    Cholera claims two in Mazabuka
    April 25, 2016 | Filed under: Featured,Health | Posted by: ZNBC User

    Cholera has broken out in Mazabuka district leaving two people dead while Thirty Five (35) others are admitted to two established Cholera centres.

    Mazabuka District Medical Officer Stephen Shajanika has confirmed the outbreak of Cholera to ZANIS News in an interview in Mazabuka.

    Dr. Shajanika says the outbreak of the disease was recorded in the district yesterday in five named fishing camps that lie on the islands of Kafue River...

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    • #17
      Source: https://www.lusakatimes.com/2016/05/...ncrease-monze/


      Cholera cases increase in Monze
      May 2, 2016

      The international labour day celebrations in Monze have been postponed following the outbreak of cholera which has since claimed two lives in some parts of the district.

      And cholera cases in Monze District have risen from 28 last week to 42 since the disease broke out a week ago...

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      • #18
        Source: https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=66015


        Lusaka cholera cases reduce
        Posted in News on May 11, 2016 by Web Editor
        CATHERINE MUMBA, Lusaka

        THE cholera outbreak which hit Lusaka since February this year has reduced, provincial medical officer Kennedy Malama has said.
        Dr Malama said in an interview yesterday that as of Sunday 18:00 hours, no new cholera cases were recorded at any cholera centre in the province.
        ?Since the outbreak, we have had a total of 948 cases and 944 were recorded in Lusaka. I am very happy to note that we have not recorded any new case for the first time in three months,? he said...

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        • #19
          Source: https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=66484


          Cholera to end soon
          Posted in News on May 15, 2016 by Web Editor
          CHOLERA MANAGEMENT.

          PROVINCIAL medical officer Kennedy Malama says cholera cases are expected to end in the next two weeks because there has been a significant reduction in the number of cases being recorded in Lusaka Province.
          He said yesterday that more than 25 cases were recorded daily when the disease just broke out but the number has reduced to two...

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          • #20
            Source: https://www.lusakatimes.com/2016/10/...cholera-cases/


            Kapiri Mposhi records 27 cholera cases
            October 19, 2016

            Kapiri Mposhi District has recorded 27 cases of cholera.
            Two people have since died from the epidemic in the district since the disease broke out last week.
            Kapiri Mposhi District Commissioner, Peter Mwiinde, confirmed the outbreak of Cholera to ZANIS...

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            • #21
              Source: https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=87062


              Grappling with Lukanga Swamps cholera outbreaks
              Posted in Editor's Choice, Features on November 25, 2016 by Web Editor

              CHAMBO NG?UNI, Kabwe
              ?LUKANGA Swamps have become a sewerage pond. At the moment, we are eating fish from a sewer.?
              This is how Kabwe Municipal Council director of public health Paul Mukuka recently described the sanitation situation in the Lukanga Swamps in Kapiri Mposhi district following the latest outbreak of cholera.
              Mr Mukuka expressed these worries at a recent Central Province epidemic preparedness prevention and control management committee meeting held in Kabwe where various stakeholders deliberated on what could be the lasting solution to the recurrent outbreaks of cholera in the swamps.
              In justifying why an early fishing ban needs to be imposed as a plausible measure to control cholera in the fishing camps in the swamps, Mr Mukuka said other than in the swamps, the disease is also a threat to human life in other areas in Kapiri Mposhi, Kabwe and Chibombo districts.
              ?We can?t talk of sanitation in the Lukanga Swamps, we can?t talk of putting up toilets there, there is nowhere to build toilets,? he pointed out.
              Mr Mukuka said an early fishing ban could be a practical solution to the frequent outbreaks of cholera in the Lukunga Swamps.
              In 2013, Kapiri Mposhi recorded 47 cases of cholera, 41 cases in 2014 and there was no outbreak in 2015.
              Most of the cases were recorded in the Lukanga Swamps.
              Since September 11 this year, Central Province has recorded 36 cases, and of these, 27 have been documented at Waya Rural Health Centre in Lukanga area, five in Kapiri Mposhi urban and three in Kabwe.
              Twenty-seven patients were admitted to Waya Rural Health Centre, two died while 25 were discharged after undergoing treatment...

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