17 refugees die of cholera in fresh crisis for authorities

A number of Cholera cases in the district have increased from five to 15 after the disease broke in the district in November last year.

Kilimanjaro Region has stepped up several measures to contain cholera, a water-borne communicable disease, which has lately wreaked havoc in various regions, killing at least 100.

Refugees at the Nyarugusu Camp receive the Oral Cholera Vaccine. (c) UNICEF Tanzania/2015/Thomas Lyimo.
Last week the Oral Cholera Vaccine, OCV, was administered at the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, to over 106,000 refugees from the Congo and – more recently – Burundi, out of an estimated camp population of 120,000 (children under the age of one were not vaccinated, hence the discrepancy in numbers). Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF), who administered the vaccine,...

The death toll due to cholera in Kigoma has now risen to 33. There are fears that the outbreak, in which the victims are refugees fleeing violence in Burundi, may take more than two weeks to contain.

More than 3,000 Burundian refugees in Tanzania have contracted cholera, the UN says, with hundreds of new cases a day.

The recent violence in Burundi has forced many people to flee the country into western Tanzania, where they face another threat - cholera.

Cholera hits 3000 Burundi refugees in Tanzania - UN
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GENEVA/BUJUMBURA, May 22 (Reuters) - About 3,000 refugees fleeing political turmoil in Burundi have been infected in a cholera epidemic in neighbouring Tanzania, the United Nations said on Friday, stoking fears of a growing humanitarian crisis in ...

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Burundian refugees face cholera threat in Tanzania
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The UN refugee agency UNHCR says an outbreak of cholera has infected 3,000 people in a Tanzanian border region, where the population has increased dramatically due to an influx of refugees from Burundi. Refugees from Burundi at a makeshift clinic.
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Cholera outbreak among Burundi refugees in Tanzania slowing: UN
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Geneva (AFP) - A cholera outbreak raging among Burundian refugees in Tanzania has slowed significantly with no new deaths reported in the past five days, the United Nations said Tuesday. Related Stories. Cholera outbreak kills 27 Burundi refugees in ...
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