The epidemic situation of cholera of Midwest of Africa causes thousands of people to die

The epidemic situation of cholera of Midwest of Africa causes thousands of people to die
The epidemic situation of cholera of Midwest of Africa causes thousands of people to die
Www.xinhuanet.com Yaounde 9 Cable of the 13th of moon (reporter Liu Fang) During these days, are located in country's cholera epidemic situations such as Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad of the Midwest of Africa,etc. to sustain and spread, have already caused thousands of people death at present. WHO statistics show, up to 13th, more than 10,000 people are infected with cholera in Nigeria, 614 people die; 1040 people are infected with cholera in Chad, 65 people die. Cameroon public the intersection of health minister and the intersection of agate and agate does not up to, say, cholera breaks out from the May such as north such as click 13, 417 people have died already, and the epidemic situation is being still aggravated, increase over one hundred the infeted newly every day. The click government has already established the epidemic situation crisis and dealt with the office, has devoted more efforts to preventing epidemic. WHO stays base of a fruit of law of Cameroon representative Charlotte - N'diaye tells Xinhua News Agency's reporter, in a last few months, the staff members of WHO have been assisting the click government to contain the cholera epidemic situation, but because the traffic of northern mountain area is inconvenient, lack clean drinking water and toilet and rain fall and aggravate and use factors such as the water pollution,etc. continuously, the measure result of epidemic prevention is not clear. WHO points out, countries such as Cameroon, Nigeria, the Niger, Chad,etc. generally lack and clean source of water and health facilities, people often flow across the border, aggravate the spread of cholera. But tolerance standard of ones that are far higher than 1 in case fatality rate of this regional cholera at present.


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