Zambia: 2012 typhoid cases- outbreak in Kabwe

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State to get to bottom of Mufulira tyhoid outbreak
By Times Reporter

THE Government will institute another investigation to establish whether typhoid in Mufulira could have been caused by factors other than water contamination resulting from vandalised water pipes.

Health Minister, Dr Joseph Kasonde said in Mufulira the Government wanted to bring out more details because the explanation about the cause of water contamination was not sufficient.

More than 870 residents have been hit by severe diarrhoea and out of this number, 450 were confirmed typhoid cases...

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Typhoid kills one in Mufulira
By NKOMBO KACHEMBA

ONE person has died of suspected typhoid in Mufulira?s Mupambe Township following the outbreak of the waterborne disease two weeks ago.
Paul Muma Kalunga has become the first victim of the waterborne disease that has seen many residents of the mining town of Mufulira hopitalised.
Brother of the deceased, Dominick Kalunga, confirmed the development in an interview in Mufulira yesterday...

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Typhoid cases up to 2,094
By NKOMBO KACHEMBA

THE number of patients treated for typhoid in Mufulira?s Mupambe township has risen to 2,094.
Two people have so far died of the diarrhoeal disease, which broke out last month.
Ministry of Health spokesperson Reuben Mbewe said in an interview yesterday that out of the 2,094 patients treated for typhoid, 119 were admitted to various health centres while 79 were discharged since the outbreak of the water-borne disease.
?As at Friday last week, we had 2,094 patients who were attended to for suspected typhoid, out of which 119 were admitted to various health centres while 79 were discharged since the outbreak of the disease two weeks ago,? Dr Mbewe said...

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Typhoid contained in Mufulira
By NKWETO MFULA

OUTGOING Copperbelt Minister Rogers Mwewa says the outbreak of typhoid in Mufulira, which has so far claimed three lives, has been contained.
Mr Mwewa, who has been transferred to Luapula, said the water-borne disease has not spread to other townships or districts.

He was speaking in Ndola yesterday when Deputy Minister of Finance Elfreda Kansembe paid a courtesy call on him at Cabinet office .

He said apart from the outbreak of typhoid in Mufulira and the confusion that surrounded trading land near Masala market, the province has been largely well-managed.

Mr Mwewa said the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit is doing everything possible to ensure that the disease is completely contained.
The disease broke out in Mufulira last month and three people, including a two-year-old girl, have died...

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Govt determined to contain Mufulira typhoid
Written by Davies M.M Chanda Monday, 23 January 2012 09:04
By Times Reporter

MINISTRY of Health spokesperson Kamoto Mbewe has said the Government has made progress in containing the typhoid outbreak in Mufulira...

..."There has been a total number of 2,851 people who came through for treatment since the outbreak, but we have only 40 cases currently under treatment, and only three people have been recently admitted to hospital," he said...

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Typhoid claims another life
By NKOMBO KACHEMBA
ANOTHER person has died of typhoid in Mufulira?s Mupambe township.
This brings to three the number of people who have died since the waterborne disease broke out in December last year.
Ministry of Health spokesperson Reuben Mbewe confirmed this in an interview on Tuesday.
Dr Mbewe said the man, whose identity he withheld, died at Malcolm Watson Hospital over the weekend.
?We recorded one death over the weekend. One patient died of typhoid in the male ward over the weekend. This is the third death we have recorded since the outbreak of the disease last year,? Dr Mbewe said.
He said 2,915 people have been treated for typhoid since it broke out while six people are still receiving treatment at various health institutions in Mufulira.
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More typhoid cases recorded

Over 4- thousand 3- hundred cases of typhoid have been recorded since the disease broke out in the country.

Mufulira was the highest hit with over 3 thousand - 2 hundred cases.
Ministry of Health acting spokesperson, Chrispin Moyo says nine deaths been recorded so far.

Dr Moyo says Lusaka recorded 845 cases of typhoid, Kalabo had 253 cases and Nakonde recorded the lowest with 55 cases.

Dr Moyo says 27 patients are still under going treatment in Mufulira and Lusaka respectively.
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Re: Zambia: Mufulira typhoid outbreak- contained

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Published On: Thu, Mar 8th, 2012
Local News | By mitia
Typhoid contained in Mufulira at last

TYPHOID which broke out in Mufulira in December last year has been contained with the last 22 admissions being discharged, district commissioner Philip Simbule has said.

Mr Simbule said in an interview yesterday that as of yesterday, all patients had been discharged.

?The outbreak has been contained and all the admissions have been discharged from isolation centres, Ronald Ross and Malcom Hospitals,? Mr Simbule said.

Typhoid broke out in Mupambe Township in Mufulira where more than 2,500 people were affected of which five lives were lost.

The 22 patients have been discharged in the last two weeks...

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Re: Zambia: 2012 typhoid cases- outbreak in Kabwe

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Published On: Wed, Apr 4th, 2012
Local News |
Kabwe records 16 typhoid cases

MORE than 16 cases of typhoid have been recorded in Kabwe in the last three days.


The Central Province capital has experienced heavy rain and flooding in the past three weeks in which pit latrines have collapsed, while some residents have abandoned their flooded houses.


Some affected families in Ngungu and Chimanimani townships attributed the outbreak of the disease to the alleged failure by the provincial administration to relocate families to drier areas.


Provincial medical officer, Dickson Suya confirmed the outbreak of typhoid in an interview in Kabwe yesterday.
Dr Suya said most of the patients were admitted to Kabwe Mine and Kabwe General hospitals.
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Zambia: Kabwe Typhoid Cases Soar
6 April 2012

THE number of typhoid cases in Kabwe has increased from 16 on Tuesday this week to 76, raising concern among Government and health personnel.

District Commissioner, Patrick Chishala, who confirmed the development in an interview yesterday, said it was sad that the outbreak of typhoid had increased.

He was, however, happy that no life had been lost...