The Kenyan Ministry of Health announced that the cholera epidemic was spread in six provinces of the country, including the capital, Nairobi, noting that the total number of injuries recorded so far has reached about 60 cases.
A highly contagious illness, cholera is typically spread by water tainted with human faeces.
Cholera produces severe and drying in palpation after a brief nursery that lasts between two and five days. If the injured individual does not receive quick medical attention, he may pass away within hours.
The “Cholera outbreak” was recognised by the Kenyan health authorities in six of the nation’s provinces, including the capital city of Nairobi, where 17 cases were reported.
50 million people live in East Africa, where the Ministry of Health claims that a “wedding ceremony held in Kimo Province,” just ten kilometres north of the country’s capital, Nairobi, is the cause of the pandemic.
31 injuries were reported in this province alone, which is half as many as were reported nationwide.
13 individuals were reportedly moved to hospitals because of the severity of their conditions, according to the health authorities.
The Ministry of Health issued a statement warning that the country’s ongoing drought, which has intensified to a degree unseen in 40 years, “may exacerbate the” cholera epidemic.
In the largest refugee camp in history, Dadab, in northern Kenya, at least ten Somalis perished from cholera in January 2016, and around a thousand others were wounded.
Affected individuals range from 1.
Between 21 thousand and 143 thousand individuals die as a result of the disease worldwide, which affects between 3 million and 4 million people.
Nairobi and six other Kenyan districts experiencing a cholera outbreak
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