Health Alerts

In an update on cholera in Kenya issued by the WHO this week, two main concerns were raised: there is a cycle of continuous transmission with ~70% of cases from the highly populous capital county, Nairobi (many of the remainder occurred in refugee camps), and ‘previous outbreaks have shown that cases increase during the rainy season, which has started recently’. In summing up: ‘WHO encourages travellers to the affected area to take proper hygiene precautions to prevent potential exposure’. Read more.