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Tanzania: Zanzibar Redoubles Efforts to Combat Cholera
Jan 24, 2007
by UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Cholera outbreaks in Tanzania's semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar have continued due to poor hygiene standards, health officials said on Wednesday, while announcing renewed efforts to raise public awareness.
"We need to double our efforts of awareness; we also need to strengthen by-laws to make sure that the islands are kept clean," Dr Omar Suleiman, an officer in the Ministry of Health, said in Stone Town, capital of Zanzibar.
Following recent outbreaks in Jambiani village, 35km south of Stone Town, where at least 10 people have been hospitalised and one died, health officials said cholera remained a problem, attributing the continued outbreaks to unhygienic living conditions and improper or lack of use of toilets.
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 24 January 2007
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