Published Date: 2012-03-12 08:51:39
Subject: PRO/EAFR> Cholera - Sierra Leone (02)
Archive Number: 20120312.245695

CHOLERA - SIERRA LEONE (02)
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Date: Thu 8 Mar 2012
Source: Bloomberg [edited]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-08/sierra-leone-cholera-outbreak-leaves-34-people-dead-more-ill.html


Sierra Leone cholera outbreak leaves 34 people dead
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At least 34 people have been killed by a cholera outbreak in Sierra
Leone, Deputy Health and Sanitation Minister Borbor Sawyer said today
[8 Mar 2012].

The West African nation has recorded 2137 cases of the bacterial
infection since last month [February 2012] in 3 districts in the
north and south, he told reporters in Freetown, the capital.

Cholera causes acute watery diarrhea and severe dehydration and is
spread through contaminated food and water.

[Byline: Silas Gbandia]

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[Further cases and deaths continue to be registered in the cholera
outbreak that has affected at least 3 districts in the Northern and
Southern regions of Sierra Leone. The cases have been attributed to
poor access to safe water in the affected communities. In our
previous report, late reporting to hospital was highlighted as the
main factor for the high death toll. We continue to see more deaths
in this report and hence the authorities need to improve case
detection and access to treatment at community level.

Maps of Sierra Leone can be seen at
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/sierrale.pdf and
http://healthmap.org/r/1KlT. - Mod.JFW]

See Also

Cholera - Sierra Leone: (Northern) 20120305.245113
Cholera - Congo Republic: (Likouala) 20120227.244408
Cholera - Congo DR (02) 20120227.244407
Cholera - Mozambique: (Maputo) 20120227.244401
Cholera - Malawi: (Southern), RFI 20120211.242985
Cholera - Central African Republic 20120204.242305
Cholera - Congo DR 20120129.241575
2011
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Cholera - Congo DR (14) 20111230.238566
Cholera - Angola: (Lunda Norte) 20111228.238382
Cholera - Zambia (04): (Copperbelt), susp. 20111228.238381
Cholera - Cameroon (10) 20111219.237632
Cholera - Zimbabwe (10): Alert 20111218.237550
Cholera - Uganda (03): (Kasese) 20111215.237258
Cholera - Cameroon (09): (Douala) 20111129.235947
Cholera - Congo DR (12) 20111126.235805
Cholera - Kenya: (North Eastern) Dadaab Camp 20111126.235802
Cholera, diarrhea and dysentery - Djibouti: (Djibouti) 20111123.235604
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