K’njaro authorities move to avert cholera outbreak

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.

>Seventeen Burundian refugees being accommodated in Kigoma Region have died from an outbreak of cholera and several others appear to be trapped in a health crisis arising from poor sanitation in the temporary camps.

Tanzania's Cholera epidemic which erupted in Dar es Salaam has now started spreading upcountry due to the mobility of people through commercial trade, The Citizen has learnt.

Cholera outbreak kills 54 in Tanzania: UN
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DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- An ongoing cholera outbreak starting in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam has killed 54 people since August, the United Nations (UN) said in a report released on Wednesday in the east African nation.

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UN: 'Significant Challenges' in Tanzania Cholera Outbreak
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GENEVA—. U.N. aid agencies report better sanitation and clean drinking water is containing a cholera epidemic among Burundian refugees in Tanzania, but there are fears that the deadly disease could spread to the local Tanzanian population. The U.N. ...
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Tanzania’s cholera outbreak which has killed at least 36 people in Dar es Salaam and is spreading up country into Singida has now been reported in Mwanza Region where it has been recently confirmed that eight people have already died from the water born bacterial disease.

The Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Corporation (Dawasco) has refuted claims that water supplied by the public utility in some areas was contaminated with bacteria that cause cholera.

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Cholera outbreak among Burundi refugees in Tanzania slowing: UN
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is rushing critical relief supplies to Tanzania's north-western border with Burundi amid a devastating cholera outbreak affecting tens of thousands of refugees there. In a press release issued earlier today, UNICEF ...