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A Year Of Cholera Teaches Prevention is Better Than Treatment
February 7, 2007
Almost a year into a cholera outbreak, aid agencies and Angola’s government have learnt to address the symptoms, but tackling it’s causes remains a challenge.
At the start of the year, new cases of the waterborne disease seemed to be coming under control, but severe flooding at the end of January caused cholera cases to jump. “Following the heavy rains there were up to 100 new cases a day a week ago - up from 5 to 10 a day - and now the numbers are declining again,” Mark van Boekel, head of MSF Holland in Angola told IRIN.
The Angolan government officially recognized the outbreak on 13 February 2006. Over 70,000 cholera cases and nearly 3000 deaths have been counted since, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) figures.
Copyright © IRIN 2007
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by on 8 February 2007
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