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Cholera Update PNG East Sepik province
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Cholera in Papua New Guinea was reported for the first time in 50 years in Morobe province in late August 2009. [See our Health Alerts of 6th, 16th and 21st September.] It spread to Madang, where an outbreak was declared in October 2009and the number of people suspected to be infected there has risen to 400. Now, in a statement released on November 19th the East Sepik provincial administration and health authorities have confirmed a new outbreak in Angoram district. The worst affected areas are Kambaramba village, the Biwat area, Angoram town, and the Gavien Resettlement area. People from these areas are frequent travellers to Madang province via the Sepik River and they may have contracted the disease there.
