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PNG Cholera update - 25th October
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Following strenuous efforts to control the cholera outbreak there has been a disappointing report of a further 6 cases seen in one day at the cholera centre in Lae. Dr Likei Theo, chairman of the Morobe cholera outbreak task force, says the emergence of a large number of cases in one day showed that the people were returning to their old ways and were not as fastidious over hygiene as they had been.
The development comes as most of the aid agencies and organizations
that were assisting the task force have left Morobe.
Visitors and workers with development projects should be immunised with the oral Dukoral vaccine but the most important preventive measures are careful attention to personal hygiene and drinking safely sterilised water.
