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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Cholera kills 4, infects 400 in Burundi

Via News 24 :

" Cholera has killed at least four people in an outbreak in the past three weeks in western Burundi, where more than 400 people are infected, a health ministry official said on Monday.

"Cholera is back in Burundi [...]. Since August 03, we have officially registered 428 cases, of whom 42 were in hospital this morning in two southern districts of Bujumbura, in the [south-western] district of Rumonge and in the [north-western] province of Cibitoke", Terence Bwarikindi, the deputy head of emergency services in the health ministry, told AFP.

"At least four people have sadly died of this disease," he added.

The area affected by cholera runs from Cibitoke, about 45km north of Bujumbura, to Rumonge, 80km south of the Burundian capital."

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