Tag: Cholera
Cholera: Zimbabwe declares state of emergency – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that the Government of Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency following a…
Cholera outbreak: Zimbabwean police ban public gatherings
Zimbabwean police have banned public gatherings in the capital Harare following a cholera outbreak that has killed 21 people and…
Cholera: UN Agency seeks urgent intervention, records 680 cases in Borno
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has called for urgent and strengthened interventions following…
Cholera: FCTA cautions against open defecation
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has warned residents to desist from open defecation to prevent cholera in the territory.
Cholera: FCTA warns residents against open defecation
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Thursday warned residents in the territory to desist from open defecation to prevent…
Cholera kills 28 in Kano in seven months
The Kano State Government says it has recorded 400 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea with 50 confirmed cases of…
Cholera kills 7 in 4 FCT communities
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said that seven deaths had been recorded from the outbreak of cholera in…
Cholera: More deaths recorded in Kano as govt officials keep mum
More deaths have been reported from cholera outbreak in Gwarzo Local Government Area of Kano State, as government officials kept…
Cholera claims 186 lives in 6 months – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Cholera has claimed 186 lives across the country in the last six…
Cholera: Bauchi, UNICEF construct boreholes, latrines in schools
The Bauchi State Government in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has constructed 10 boreholes and six blocks of…
5 die of cholera in Katsina
No fewer than five persons have lost their lives and 50 others hospitalised over suspected outbreak of cholera in Funtua…
Cholera: NGO task Nigerians on clean environment
Food Hygiene Initiative of Nigeria (FHIN), an NGO, has called on Nigerians to keep their environment clean to prevent cholera…
Cholera: Niger confirms 3 new suspected cases
The Niger Ministry of Health and Hospital Management, on Tuesday confirmed three new suspected cases of cholera at Bida General…
Adamawa records 12 new cholera cases
No fewer than 12 new cholera cases have been recorded in Adamawa, the State Government announced on Thursday in Yola.
Cholera: Niger Govt. approves N25m for surveillance
The Niger Government, has approved N25 million for its Ministry of Health to continue with the ongoing surveillance on the…
Bauchi contains cholera outbreak – Official
The Bauchi State Government says it has successfully contained Cholera outbreak in parts of the state.
Cholera outbreak: Kogi confirms 17 suspected cases, 3 deaths
The Kogi Government on Thursday confirmed 17 cases of cholera out of which three had died in Kabawa Uphill Community…
Cholera: WHO intensifies house to house search
World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is coordinating the control of Cholera outbreak in Adamawa and has embarked on intensive…
Tanzania: Cholera kills 15, hospitalises hundreds
No fewer than 15 people have died and 397 others hospitalised in the last three weeks following a cholera outbreak…
Cholera: Plateau confirms 3 cases
The Plateau Commissioner for Health, Mr Kunden Deyin, on Monday said that three persons had been confirmed to have cholera,…
Cholera Outbreak: Massive chlorination of water points commences
Massive chlorination of infected water points in Mubi town of Adamawa has commenced in earnest to contain the outbreak of…
Cholera: NCDC urges Nigerians to maintain high hygiene
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday charged Nigerians on the need to maintain high hygiene to prevent…
Death toll in Mubi cholera crisis rises to 13, 434 cases recorded
The Adamawa Ministry of Health has confirmed that the cases of cholera outbreak in Mubi have risen to 434 with…
Cholera: UN donates $2m to North-East
The United Nations, through the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund, on Friday in Abuja, donated two million dollars to support the response…
Cholera outbreak: UN allocates $2m to support response in Yobe
The UN, through the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF), released two million dollars to sustain the response to a deadly cholera…
Adamawa: Most cholera patients have been discharged – Official
The Principal Medical Officer (PMO) of Mubi General Hospital in Adamawa, Dr Ezra Sakawa says most of the 223 cholera…
Cholera: Katsina Govt distributes drugs to prevent epidemic
The Katsina State Government has distributed drugs to prevent any outbreak of cholera and meningitis during rainy season.
Cholera: FCT residents advised to keep surroundings clean
The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, has advised residents of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to keep their surroundings clean…
Cholera, Lassa fever outbreak kills 14 in Bauchi
Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, Zuwaira Hassan, on Friday, confirmed that 14 people died in the state following outbreak of…
36 DR Congo refugees die of cholera in Uganda
The WHO on Thursday said 36 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) died of cholera in February…