Refugees cholera death toll hits 30

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

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 ...

At least four people have died of cholera in Dar es Salaam since the disease resurfaced in the city last weekend. Twenty-six people had been hospitalised in Kinondoni District by midday yesterday with excessive diarrhoea and vomiting, up from six patients reported on Sunday.

Some 208 people have now died from the Ebola virus in Guinea after a deadly spike in cases in recent days, world health officials say.

>The Minister for Transport, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe, yesterday appealed  to well-wishers to come forward and help Kyela District residents whose lives have been disrupted by floods in the wake of the ongoing rains.

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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,...

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Cholera strikes 3000 Burundi refugees in Tanzania: UN
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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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Cholera infects 3000 Burundian refugees; UN call for help
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says an outbreak of cholera has infected 3,000 people in a Tanzanian border region where refugees from Burundi have massed. UNHCR says 300 to 400 new cases are being reported daily. At least 31 ...
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