The cholera epidemic has expanded to six of Kenya’s districts, including the capital city of Nairobi, the Kenyan Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday. It also noted that the total number of injuries so far documented has reached roughly 60 cases.
A highly contagious illness, cholera is typically spread by water tainted with human faeces.
Cholera causes severe, dry diarrhoea in the body after a brief nursery period of two to five days, and if the victim is not treated right away, he could pass away in a matter of 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.
According to the health authorities, 13 patients were transferred to hospitals because of the seriousness of their condition.
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 annually by the cholera epidemic are between 1.
3 million and four million people in the world, and leads to the death of between 21 thousand and 143 thousand people.
Author: AFP.
Nairobi and five other Kenyan provinces experienced cholera outbreaks.
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