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  • Ethiopia: 2019 Cholera

    Source: https://en.brinkwire.com/news/871-pe...a-in-ethiopia/


    871 people contract cholera in Ethiopia
    By Brinkwire on July 2, 2019

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia has diagnosed 871 people with cholera ? an acute infectious diarrhoeal disease, an official said on Tuesday.

    ?So far, 871 people have been diagnosed with cholera in different areas,? the local broadcaster FANA stated, quoting the Director General of Ethiopian Public Health Institute Getachew Tolera.

    The cholera cases have spread in Oromia, Amhara, TIgray, Somali and Afar provinces, as well as in two major cities of the country.

    The disease has so far caused deaths of 17 persons, FANA quoted Getachew as saying.

    The majority of cases have been reported from Oromia province, with 350 people diagnosed with the infectious disease.

    As many as 202 people have contracted it in Amhara, 19 in Tigray, 131 in Afar and 33 in Somali regions.

    Some 125 persons have been diagnosed with the disease in the capital Addis Ababa and one in Dire Dawa city in Eastern Ethiopia...

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    Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopi...in-6-july-2019

    Ethiopia: Health Cluster Bulletin #6, July, 2019
    Report
    from World Health Organization, Health Cluster
    Published on 31 Jul 2019 ? View Original

    Situation update

    1090 cases of cholera, with 45 confirmed by culture have been reported since April 2019. There are active outbreaks in Oromia and Harari, as well as sporadic cases from Addis Ababa and Tigray. The outbreaks in Amhara and Dire Dawa are declared over as these regions didn?t report cases for more than 30 days. WHO, UNICEF, SCI, MSF-E, MCMDO, IRC, IMC, AAH, Care and WVE are supporting various elements of the cholera outbreak response in different locations.

    The cholera outbreak in Amibara woreda of Afar region was controlled after successful maintenance work on the water pipe system supplying the farming area. No cholera cases were reported from the commercial farms of Tigray and Amhara during this planting season. However, the possibility of outbreaks cannot be excluded because there was no report of a major improvement of the WaSH situation in these farms...

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