Nigeria: Suspected Gastro-enteritis kills 24 in Katsina, Gombe

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Gastro-enteritis kills 24 in Katsina, Gombe
August 24, 2010 05:23AM

No fewer than 16 persons in Gombe and six in Katsina State have died of an outbreak of a disease suspected to be gastro-enteritis.

Mohammad Umar, the Commissioner for Health in Gombe state said that gastro-enteritis has also claimed 16 lives in seven local government areas of the state, while it was also discovered in Tashar Gamji village of Kankia Local Government Area, Katsina State.

Mr Umar told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Monday that the local governments affected were Gombe, Yamaltu-Deba, Kaltungo, Billiri, Shongom, Balanga and Akko and that in August alone, seven deaths and 233 cases were recorded in those areas...

 

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Re: Nigeria: Suspected Gastro-enteritis kills 24 in Katsina, Gombe

Nigeria: 48 die from gastroenteritis in Nigeria


48 die from gastroenteritis in Nigeria - Gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, has killed 48 people in two Nigerian states in the north, the same region where cholera has claimed 360 lives so far this year, the local press reported Tuesday.

In Yobe state, 42 people were killed and 443 other infected by the disease in 10 local government areas of the state within the past week, the report said, quoting health officials.

In Katsina, the disease has killed six persons and infected 50.

A representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Isa Aremu, indicated that the disease, which has to do with 'watery passage of stool and vomiting', physically looks like cholera but that necessary tests are not available in the area to confirm it.

A cholera epidemic in Bauchi and Borno states has killed 360 people and infected over 5,000 others.

Health experts blame the outbreak on the pollution of sources of drinking water by flooding from heavy rains.

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