Cameroon: 200 dead in 10 months after the reappearance of cholera

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Cholera, a disease that causes acute diarrhea and can kill within hours without treatment, is making a sporadic resurgence in the vast central African country of more than 25 million people.

The reappearance of cholera in October 2021 in Cameroon claimed the lives of 200 people, while more than 10,300 cases have been recorded in the African country, the Minister of Health announced yesterday Thursday.

Cholera, a disease that causes acute diarrhea and can kill within hours without treatment, is making a sporadic resurgence in the vast central African country of more than 25 million people.

Since the start of the current epidemic at the end of last October, 200 people have lost their lives out of a total of 10,322 cases, Cameroonian Health Minister Manauda Malassi said on Twitter.

Five of Cameroon’s ten regions, including Littoral, which includes Douala, the economic capital, and Center province, which includes the capital Yaounde, are affected by the epidemic, according to the health ministry.

“Caution! Let’s observe personal hygiene measures”, urged Dr. Malassi.

The previous cholera outbreak in Cameroon, from January to August 2020, claimed the lives of 66 people.

As of early 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there are 1.3 to 1.4 million cholera cases and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths from the disease worldwide each year.

There are “safe oral cholera vaccines,” and “they should be used together with improved water supply and sanitation to reduce cholera outbreaks and promote prevention in known high-risk areas,” the agency added. UN.

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