Health Alerts

Confirmation that cholera has spread to a sixth district in the northern province of Cabo Delgado after 11 cases, and including one death, were reported in Montepuez. The outbreak that began a year ago on the island of Ibo (Quirimbas Island group) before spreading to the provincial capital Pemba and beyond has sickened more than 2,100 people and caused 37 deaths. Meanwhile, the relatively small flare-up of cholera in Golfe 1 and Golfe 6 districts of Togo’s capital, Lomé, has remained active as the country moves into its first epidemic peak period for the year over the dry months of Jan-Mar. The affected districts are ‘in an area that attracts large numbers of people from different areas of Lomé and from neighbouring towns to buy fish’. Read More