Health Alerts

No new Ebola cases have emerged in the last three weeks, however a single infected person who had escaped from a treatment facility remains at large (in an unsecured area). The WHO notes that intervention is needed to attend to the ‘outbreaks of measles and cholera, the low-level Ebola virus disease outbreak in North Kivu and COVID-19 … to avoid catastrophic consequences from one or the other’. In neighbouring Uganda, a limited outbreak of cholera was confirmed last week in the NE district of Moroto. To date 67 cases and one death have been recorded. Elsewhere, cholera cases continue to be reported in Kenya’s Marsabit County, one of five in which active transmission has been recorded this year, and a cholera outbreak has been in Cameroon’s most populous city of Douala, killing four people.  Read More