Cholera hits 3,000 Burundi refugees

Cholera hits 3000 Burundi refugees in Tanzania - UN
Reuters Africa
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 ...

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.

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

Yahoo News
Cholera outbreak among Burundi refugees in Tanzania slowing: UN
Yahoo News
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Reuters
Cholera strikes 3000 Burundi refugees in Tanzania: UN
Reuters
GENEVA Some 3,000 cases of cholera have been reported in a worsening epidemic in Tanzania among Burundian refugees, the United Nations said on Friday. A Tanzanian health official told Reuters on Wednesday that at least 33 people had died from the ...
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Fear of cholera, floods as Burundi refugees pack Tanzania camps
Daily Mail
NAIROBI, Nov 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Heavy rains, flooding and a spike in new arrivals could threaten the lives of over 110,000 Burundian refugees in overcrowded camps in Tanzania, six aid agencies said on Monday, amid warnings of rising ...

The Guardian
Cholera biggest threat as Burundi refugees crowd into Tanzania camps
The Guardian
Refugees fleeing the political crisis in Burundi make the journey across Lake Tanganyika heading for UN camps in neighbouring Tanzania. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP. Guardian Global development is supported by: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Three weeks after Burundi’s anti-government street demonstrations started in Bujumbura, the number of refugees who have crossed the border into Tanzania has reached 11,000.

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,...