Kenya: 2018 Cholera

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Source: https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/t...of-toilets/1183330-4492682-iupbf2z/index.html


Rise in Turkana cholera cases blamed on poor sanitation
Sunday April 22 2018
By ANGELA OKETCH
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Lack of toilets and poor hygiene in most restaurants in Turkana County have been blamed for increasing cases of cholera that have so far claimed three lives with 78 others hospitalised.

Dr Gilchrist Lokoel, Lodwar Referral Hospital chief executive officer, said the three died while receiving treatment...

 

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25 admitted to Kiambu hospitals with Cholera

TUESDAY MAY 15 2018
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By MARY WAMBUI

At least 25 people are admitted to two Kiambu hospitals following a cholera outbreak in Githurai, Kiamumbi and Riabai areas.

Some 22 patients are at Kiambu Level Five Hospital while three were admitted to Thika Level Five Hospital on Monday evening.

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The patients, according to Thika Level Five medical superintendent Patrick Nyaga, include a mother and her three children.

Dr Nyaga said the mother and her two children came from Githurai 44 in Nairobi County.
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https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/k...ith-Cholera/1183274-4562590-3dxi0m/index.html

 

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Source: https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/201...-outbreak-in-nairobis-korogocho-slum_c1762804


Fears after reports of cholera outbreak in Nairobi's Korogocho slum
May. 23, 2018, 3:00 pm
By LILLIAN MUTAVI

Health officials in Nairobi have issued a cholera alert following the death of two people from symptoms associated with cholera in Korogocho, Nairobi county.

A 13-year-old girl passed away while being treated at Kiambu hospital on Tuesday while a woman said she lost her grandchild, a standard seven pupil at Mission Hope school.

A number of Korogocho slum dwellers have reported illness characterised by a running stomach and vomiting, a situation they blamed on poor drainage in the area.

Nairobi Health CEC Hitan Majevda said cases of cholera were reported in Githunguri but denied reports of deaths from the disease....

 

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Source: https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/201...spitalised-in-yatta-cholera-outbreak_c1768628


One dead, six hospitalised in Yatta cholera outbreak
Jun. 05, 2018, 6:00 pm
By STAR REPORTER

One person died while six other cases of cholera were confirmed in an outbreak in in Yatta, Machakos County, on Tuesday.

The confirmations were at Matuu Level Four Hospital where the patients were admitted in an isolation room.

Machakos County Commissioner Matilda Sakwa said emergency response teams were deployed to educate people on the disease....

 

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Source: http://www.kbc.co.ke/cholera-outbreak-strikes-tana-river-county/

Cholera strikes Tana River County
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Health practitioners in Tana River County are on high alert following a cholera outbreak in the area.

Tana River County Chief Executive in charge of health Mawanajuma Hiribae confirmed that 78 people in Madogo area are admitted to hospital after testing positive for the bacterial disease.

Dozens of patients mostly women turned up at the Madogo health centre in Tana River County with similar symptoms...

 

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Source: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/12/c_137249510.htm


Kenya confirms 75 deaths from cholera outbreak since January
Source: Xinhua 2018-06-12 22:30:18

NAIROBI, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's health authorities on Tuesday confirmed the death of 75 people from cholera in the past five months.

Jackson Kioko, the director of medical services in the ministry of health, said that 4,954 people had been infected with the disease that was first reported in the country in January...

 

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Source: https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/t...thi-County/3370192-4760844-3ggw61z/index.html

Four taken ill amid cholera fears in Tharaka-Nithi County
Saturday September 15 2018
By ALEX NJERU

A woman from Muragara village, Tharaka-Nithi County, and her children, have been diagnosed with cholera-like symptoms, raising fears of the disease outbreak in the region.

Ms Elda Mukwanjeru and her three children, who were suffering from severe diarrhoea and vomiting, were on Thursday rushed to Chuka Consolata Mission Hospital.

Another child from the neighbourhood was also taken to the same facility on Friday night with similar symptoms...

 

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Source: https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/fears-cholera-outbreak-eastlands-five-patients-admitted/

Fears of cholera outbreak in Eastlands as five patients admitted
Posted on Oct 5, 2018
By THOMAS MATIKO

Nairobi county government has issued an alert over a possible cholera outbreak in Eastlands after five patients were admitted at Mama Lucy Hospital bearing symptoms of the disease.

The county government has dispatched a disease surveillance team to Embakasi and Pipeline to ascertain the situation...

 

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Source: https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/10/12/embu-on-high-cholera-alert-three-in-hospital_c1832982

Embu on high cholera alert, three in hospital
Oct. 12, 2018, 12:00 am
By REUBEN GITHINJI

Two people in Embu county have tested positive for cholera.

One patient is admitted at the Embu Level 5 Teaching and Referral Hospital in an isolation room. The other was treated and discharged on Wednesday.

Embu Health executive Jamleck Muturi said the two men who tested positive come from Embakasi, Tassia, in Nairobi, where they consumed ?mutura? before they travelled to Embu...