Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re: News item appearing in The Hindu dated 21.12.2023 titled “6 dead, 1000 infected in suspected cholera outbreak in Rourkela dated 22/12/2023. The original application is registered in suo-moto exercise of power on the basis of the news item …
ATHI RIVER deputy county commissioner Kodeck Makori has announced a cholera outbreak in Athi River town. He addressed a public baraza in the town on Wednesday. Makori said two cases have been reported and being treated at Athi River Health Centre. He said the two adults are from Kwa Mangeli …
Seven people have died and 541 admitted after a cholera outbreak in Dadaab's Dagahaley refugee camp. About 30 per cent of the patients are children under twelve, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said, adding the heavy rains and poor sanitation stoked the spread. "The rains are exacerbating an already precarious hygiene …
Two people have died and seven hospitalised following a cholera outbreak in Mwakirunge, Mombasa county. One victim was buried last Saturday and the other on Tuesday. Three people were treated in private hospitals and discharged. The seven are admitted at the Coast General Provincial Hospital. Area MCA Enoch Mwadziwe on …
Nkasi District Commissioner (DC), Mr Iddy Hassan Kimanta, told the ‘Daily News’ over the phone on his way to Kirando village along the shores of Lake Tanganyika from Namanyere Town. Reports from Kirando village reveals that the passenger who was traveling to Rukwa region from Kigoma by ship developed serious …
"It is estimated that only one in three families (34 per cent) in Tanzania has access to improved toilets with wide disparities between regions, across urban and rural areas," according to a report from The United Nations Children's Fund, USAID and the World Health Organization (WHO). The report issued also …
Handeni — The cholera outbreak has spread to Handeni District in Tanga Region, killing six people. Residents of the district are warned to take immediate precautionary steps to prevent the bacterial disease from spreading further. According to experts the cause of the outbreak is mainly due to people drinking un-boiled …
Iraq is carrying out a major vaccination campaign to combat a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 2,200 people, the health ministry said on Sunday. The campaign, focused on vaccinating people displaced by conflict including the war with the Islamic State group, began Saturday, health minister Adeela Hammoud Hussein …
This week's issue of PLOS Medicine features two separate studies, each of which investigates the importance of uninterrupted piped water supplies to health outcomes. In a matched cohort study in Hubli-Dharwad, India, Ayse Ercumen of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues compared health outcomes for households that had been …
The provisioning of potable water was a microcosm of the Ottoman state's incomplete projects of technopolitical modernization on the Arab frontier. Water questions sat at the intersection between international pressures surrounding cholera, drought, Wahhabi and Bedouin disorder, and the inability of the state to impose its will on the semi-autonomous …
Syria's water network, heavily damaged by bombs and shelling, is at risk of collapse as its civil war drags on, increasing the threat of deadly typhoid or cholera outbreaks, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Millions of people in Aleppo and Damascus are cut off from …
The Director, Bauchi State Disease Control, Dr Ahmed Fanti, has said that there is no case of cholera in the state. Fanti told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Wednesday that the speculation in Bakul, Dunmagari and Gallari, among others in Shira Local Government Area was false. …
At least 20 people, mostly children, have died amid a fresh outbreak of cholera in Nigeria's northern Bauchi State, Nigeria’s official news agency has reported. Citing statements issued by both the federal government and the Bauchi State government, the news agency reported Saturday that the death toll from the latest …
In 2013, a stockpile of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) was created for use in outbreak response, but vaccine availability remains severely limited. Innovative strategies are needed to maximize the health impact and minimize the logistical barriers to using available vaccine. Here we ask under what conditions the use of one …
Climate change, cholera and the return of thousands of emigrants from the neighboring Dominican Republican are fueling a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the UN warned Tuesday. The impoverished Caribbean nation is facing a deluge of problems, pushing an already vulnerable population closer to the edge, said Enzo di Taranto, who …
AN urgent call for preventive measures has been sounded by authorities in Dar es Salaam, both region and city, following confirmed outbreak of the deadly cholera epidemic, which has so far claimed the lives of two people in Kinondoni Municipality. According to the Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner (RC), Saidi …
The city recorded eight cases of cholera in July, said the health report released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on Saturday. The emergence of cholera, an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhoea and can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated, usually points towards water contamination. The …
One person has died and seven others have been admitted to Isiolo Level Four Hospital following a cholera outbreak. A child below the age of four died on Tuesday evening and seven members of one family are now secluded in a ward to contain the outbreak. Isiolo Medical Superintendent Abdikadir …
The Cape Coast Metropolis has been overwhelmed with mountains of garbage. The piles of garbage have been left on the streets competing for space in the already choked central business district. Residents have expressed shock about the development which they fear can lead to a cholera epidemic. At the central …
Thirty cholera cases have been reported in Naivasha subcounty in two months, area medical officer of health Dr Oren Ombiro has said. He said most patients have been treated and discharged and the last three patients, a woman and two children, are admitted at the Naivasha Subcounty Referral Hospital. "The …
The Acting General Manager of the Ebonyi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Sunday Opoke, has said that over 3,000 water-boreholes are currently dilapidated in the state. Mr. Opoke said this in the Ebonyi State capital, Abakaliki, noting that the situation has made it difficult for rural dwellers to access …
