Kenyan health authorities have “confirmed a cholera epidemic” in six counties, including the one where Nairobi belongs (17 cases).
Six Kenyan counties, including the one that includes the capital Nairobi, are facing a cholera epidemic, with a total of sixty confirmed cases in the country, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday Wednesday.
A highly contagious disease, cholera is spread through contaminated water and human excrement. After a short incubation period of two to five days, it causes extremely acute diarrhea, dehydration, and—if not treated immediately—death within hours.
Kenyan health authorities have “confirmed a cholera epidemic” in six counties, including the one where Nairobi belongs (17 cases). According to the Ministry of Health, the outbreak in the East African state is believed to have originated at a “wedding celebration in Kiambu County”, about ten kilometers north of the Kenyan capital.
At least 31 cases, about half of those identified nationally, were reported in Kiambu County.
According to health authorities, 13 patients have been admitted to hospitals.
The drought affecting the country, the most severe in the last forty years, “may worsen the epidemic” of cholera.
In January 2016, at least ten Somalis died after contracting cholera and at least 1,000 others fell ill in the Dadaab refugee camp, the world’s largest, in northeastern Kenya.
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