Zambia - Typhoid 2013

[Ronan Kelly]

Link to 2012 thread; http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=179003

Zambia: Typhoid Breaks Out in Kasama, Mungwi
BY NORMA SIAME, 7 FEBRUARY 2013

FOUR cases of typhoid have been recorded in Kasama and Mungwi districts, Northern provincial medical officer Jelita Chinyonga has confirmed.

The disease is transmitted by ingestion of food or water contaminated with faecal matter.

Three cases were recorded in Mungwi, Lwabwe, and Kasama while the fourth victim, though admitted to Kasama General Hospital, travelled from Lusaka.

Dr Chinyonga said health officials in the province had already begun sensitising communities on the disease to ensure it did not spread.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201302070871.html

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Zambia - Typhoid 2013

UNZA students protest after one death from suspected typhoid
MAIN NEWS 22/11/2013

University of Zambia (UNZA) students this afternoon staged a protest after word went round that one of the students had died of typhoid fever and not diarrhea as diagnosed by the university clinic.
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The body of the student who died in the early hours of today is lying in the University Teaching Hospital mortuary awaiting a postmortem to establish the actual cause of death.

And UNZA public relations officer Stanslous Chewe has told Qfm that the student was on Wednesday taken to the clinic and upon conducting emergency tests, there were little indications of typhoid to a level where a person could die.

http://lusakavoice.com/2013/11/22/unza-students-staged-a-protest/