Ivory Coast - Five deaths from a mysterious disease in Kami, Yamoussoukro - pesticides suspected

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Yamoussoukro: A mysterious disease sicken 11 including two deaths

Published Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | Inter

A mysterious disease whose causes have yet to be determine left 11 victims, including two deaths in Kami, a suburb of the town of Yamoussoukro, last Saturday and Sunday.

The two deceased victims are N'Guessan Amani, 2 year old, and Ernest, aged 5 years. They successively died, for the first Saturday, and Sunday October 25, 2015 for the second. The 9 other victims are still hospitalized in the premises of Chr, including 03 in intensive care and 06 in the pediatric ward.

According to source in the village, this disease is manifested by convulsions. Suggesting immediately to the well-known disease in the community called 'bird'. Given the failure of traditional healers mobilized for the cause, patients were evacuated to Chr to receive adequate care. A relative of one of the victims, Kouakou Kouadio Jean-Claude, who is also president of the youth of Kami, said that health officials are seeking the causes of the disease. A medical team would have visited the village. But some sources explain that the herbicide spraying in the neighborhood is the cause of evil. Sadly, the victim of 11 year old that could provide information lost at the moment the power of speech. ... Following of the article on Inter

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28-10-2015 2:12:00 p.m.

The assessment of the mysterious illness led to five deaths in Kami (Yamoussoukro)

Yamoussoukro, October 28 (PIA) - The assessment of the mysterious disease that occurred Saturday in the village of Kami (Yamoussoukro) was increased to five deaths Wednesday after the death of the three children admitted in intensive care unit at the regional hospital (CHR) Yamoussoukro.

"The disease not yet identified is manifested by seizures, vomiting, stiffness before immersing the victim in a coma and death," said the regional director of health Yamoussoukro, Dr. Gaston Tra.

He said the deceased children were with advanced toxicity that could be weeding pesticides.

"Of the 13 cases in total admitted, only one is still hospitalized and does not inspire concern. The others have been stabilized," reassured Dr. Tra, met Wednesday in the village of Kami, where a medical team led by departmental director Health, Dr Lucien Bi Lehe, settled.

The team conducts consultations in villages, inoculates and deworms systematically all children aged zero to ten year old.

The Regional Director of Health took the opportunity to ask the population of Kami compliance with food and personal hygiene measures, sanitizing around homes and to see that the weeding is not made with pesticides
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Ivory Coast: Yamoussoukro, here's is what the people in the village of Kami died "mysteriously" from.

? Koaci.com-Thursday, October 29, 2015 -This is not a mysterious disease that is ravaging since last weekend in Kami in Yamoussoukro region, as reported by several sources to KOACI.

According to a health official reached on Thursday, the five people who died in the village were rather victims of food poisoning.

"It is the villagers who talk about mysterious illness. But we got there and found that it's more of food poisoning, "said our interlocutor before adding. "The samples were taken to know the origin of the food poisoning that left five deaths. The results will be known in the coming days. We have circumscribed the disease and I can assure you that there will be no more deaths. "
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Donatien Kautcha, Abidjan

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Mysterious disease in Kami (Yamoussoukro): A herbicide is the cause of the poisoning

Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:20
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The origin of the mysterious illness that left at least five dead and 13 other critical cases among children 17 months to 11 years, in Kami, a village of the commune of Yamoussoukro, since Saturday, October 24, is in the process to be known. This would be poisoning due to the use of a herbicide around some households of the village, thinks Dr Tra Gaston, regional director of health, given the symptoms developed by the victims before death.

"It happened a number of unusual symptoms in children whose age ranges between 17 months and 11 years.

Some showed symptoms of seizures, vomiting, stiffness with or without fever. They were cared for at the regional Hospital (Chr) Yamoussoukro. On analysis, we realized that these are symptoms that were similar to intoxication. So it was necessary to know the origin of this intoxication. The investigations have led us to the use of pesticides around some homes. Because all those who were affected were close to the places where pesticides were used. It remains to confirm the diagnosis. The samples were taken and we expect the results within hours, "he said.

Then he added that a standby team was deployed in the village for the care and prevention of new cases. He also reassured that there is a stabilization of the first cases.
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Note that the mysterious disease known as manifested by convulsions, vomiting and coma followed by death.

Koffi KOUAME
Agency Yamoussoukro


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Case "mysterious disease": A new recorded victim hospitalized

Source: linfodrome.com

Date: 12 hours ago

A new victim of the mysterious illness that plagues, for about a week in Kami, a village in the autonomous district of Yamoussoukro, was recorded, Thursday, October 29, 2015 and taken to Chr (University Hospital), according to our sources.

This brings to sixteen the number of victims. But the storm did we learned, is over. And this, thanks to the mobilization of all: people of the village health workers and administrative authorities. At last, a meeting held Friday, October 30, at the home of Nanan Kouassi Konan, the village chief, was the occasion for the population, especially for young people, to take action.

According to Kouassi Yao Sylvain, a close associate of Kouadio Kouakou Jean-Claude, the Youth President, it was required that the weaver accused of occult practices that have resulted in the sickness and who would not be at his first doing of its kind leaves town. "We expect the announced arrival of the Minister of Health, prior to the burial of two bodies still at the morgue," said Jean-Claude Kouadio.
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