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Namibia: Diarrhoea Plagues Witvlei Community
By Theresia Tjihenuna, 13 June 2014
WATER contamination from leaking pipes at Witvlei village is said to have caused a severe diarrohea outbreak, a health official at the village said.
Eveline Murangi, a nurse at the Witvlei clinic, said the health centre has been receiving an increasing number of diarrohea and vomiting cases since the beginning of May this year, which she suspects could be linked to contaminated water from underground pipes.
"The symptoms are being reported in both children and adults and we have not yet established the cause, but it might probably be due to water contamination or poor sanitation," she said...
Namibia: Diarrhoea Plagues Witvlei Community
By Theresia Tjihenuna, 13 June 2014
WATER contamination from leaking pipes at Witvlei village is said to have caused a severe diarrohea outbreak, a health official at the village said.
Eveline Murangi, a nurse at the Witvlei clinic, said the health centre has been receiving an increasing number of diarrohea and vomiting cases since the beginning of May this year, which she suspects could be linked to contaminated water from underground pipes.
"The symptoms are being reported in both children and adults and we have not yet established the cause, but it might probably be due to water contamination or poor sanitation," she said...