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Inmates’ cases put on hold over cholera
Nairobi :: Kenya | 1 day ago
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Lady Justice Jessie Lessit was told by a State counsel: “There is a quarantine that all prisoners detained at Kamiti Prison should not leave the remand facility.” Trials and appeals of inmates at the law courts were affected by the quarantine. As a result...
Tags: Kenya, Nairobi, Health Medical Pharma, Bacterial diseases, Pandemics, Cholera, Korogocho, Infectious diseases, Huruma, Slums, Action T4
WATER: Poor Sanitation Killing Liberia’s Young
Monrovia :: Liberia | 2 days ago
Credibility Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest...On this chaotic Friday morning in the Slipway Clinic registration room, over one hundred mothers, their crying infants wrapped in traditional lappa cloth, wait on narrow...
Tags: Poor Sanitation Killing Liberia, Liberia Demographic Health Survey, Liberia Water, Caroline, ORS, Muyatwa Sitali, civil war, zinc treatment, Inga, Ministry of Health, Liberia, Monrovia, Development, Oral rehydration therapy, Zinc, Sanitation, Public health, Gastroenterology, Cholera, Health Medical Pharma
Cholera takes toll as 31 fall ill in city
Lodwar :: Kenya | 2 days ago
Credibility While 16 were inmates from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, 15 others had been brought from Kayole and Dandora slums, according to Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka. And Public Health minister Beth Mugo said 59 other inmates were being treated for diarrhoea....
Tags: Kamiti Maximum Secu, Kenya, Lodwar, Pandemics, Public health, Sanitation, Hygiene, Slum, Millennium Development Goals, Cholera, Bacterial diseases, Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Nairobi, Kalonzo Musyoka, Social Issues, Law Crime
Cholera: 185 cases confirmed in Terengganu, 18 in Sabah
Kota Kinabalu :: Malaysia | 3 days ago
Credibility Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin, in confirming the figures Monday, said that so far these two states were the only ones reported with the cholera outbreak. "The situation in Sabah is under control so there is no need to panic....
Tags: Sabah KOTA KINABALU, Terengganu, Semporna, Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, Sulu Sea, Bajau, Disaster Accident, States of Malaysia, Cholera, Sabah
Deadly disease in prison
Nairobi :: Kenya | 3 days ago
Credibility A cholera outbreak has killed eight inmates in Kenya’s largest prison outside the capital Nairobi and hospitalised 25 others, the commissioner of prisons said. “One died on Saturday night while the seven others died early this morning. “There is a cholera...
Tags: Kenya, Nairobi, Bacterial diseases, Pandemics, Waterborne diseases, Drinking water, Dehydration, Microbiology, Cholera, Infectious diseases, Disaster Accident, Law Crime
Terengganu cholera outbreak due to tainted fish crackers
Kuala Terengganu :: Malaysia | 4 days ago
Credibility The use of contaminated fish to make crackers, a favourite snack in the state, has been identified as among the sources of cholera outbreak Terengganu, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said. He said that fish samples taken from two cracker factories...
Tags: cholerae outbreak, Kuala Terengganu, tested positive, Malaysia, Bacterial diseases, Pandemics, Terengganu, Gastroenteritis, Vibrio, Disaster Accident, Gastroenterology, Infectious diseases, Cholera, Health Medical Pharma
WEST AFRICA: Stopping cholera emergencies
Conakry :: Guinea | 6 days ago
Credibility Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts...
Tags: Guinea-Bissau, LSHTM, West Africa, hygiene messages, Jeroen Ensink, Guinea, Conakry, Sanitation, Hygiene, Cholera, Bacterial diseases, Pandemics, Environment
New strain of cholera found
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 6 days ago
Credibility Those in Terengannu suffering from diarrhoea or vomiting should seek immediate medical attention, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai. This, he added, was because of the outbreak in the state of a new strain of cholera that has already caused...
Tags: Liow, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Water-borne diseases, Neurotoxins, Liow Tiong Lai, Vomiting, Cholera, Infectious diseases, Gastroenterology, Disaster Accident, Health Medical Pharma
ZIMBABWE: Cholera returns and kills five, so far
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 6 days ago
Credibility Five people have died from cholera at two different locations in Zimbabwe, and 30 other people are undergoing treatment for the waterborne disease, raising the spectre of another epidemic. The permanent secretary for health, Gerald Gwinji, told the state-run...
Tags: Combined Harare Residents Association, told irin, IRIN, cholera outbreak, Zimbabwe, Harare, Water supply, Zimbabwean cholera outbreak, Environment, Cholera, Bacterial diseases, Pandemics
Birir cholera death toll reaches six
Chitral :: Pakistan | 6 days ago
Credibility Death toll due to cholera outbreak in the Birir Kalash valley few days back has reached six including two women, out of the 25 affected. The Medical Superintendant talking to this scribe said Kalash community is resistant to water pipelines and prefer...
Tags: death toll, Pakistan, Chitral, Chitral District, Kalash, Cholera, Disaster Accident
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