Guinea: 121 cholera deaths in 2012

[Ronan Kelly]

Guinea: $ 1.1 million CERF against cholera
The CERF has granted late April a total of 1,126,380 dollars for the response of emergency response to a cholera epidemic in Guinea. May 5, 366 cases were recorded, which had caused 27 deaths. The prefectures of Forecariah (201 cases and 19 deaths) and Boffa (154 cases including 6 deaths) were most affected. CERF funds are intended to WHO and UNICEF, under a program "Water, sanitation and hygiene."
translated from Afrique de l?Ouest et du Centre | Bulletin humanitaire Mai 2012

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Guinea: 27 cholera deaths in 2012

machine translated from Chinese. Healthmap

The cholera epidemic in Guinea was the rapid spread has caused 44 deaths

At 11:21 on July 29th 2012 Source: Xinhua
UNICEF Guinea Representative Office jointly issued a report that the cholera epidemic in Guinea was the rapid spread has caused 44 deaths and the country's Communicable Disease Control Centre on the 27th.


The report said that Guinea has five provinces reported a cholera epidemic. Since February this year, an outbreak is detected to the report was released the same day, China had found 851 cases including 44 deaths, a mortality rate of 5.17%.

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http://health.people.com.cn/n/2012/0729/c14739-18621222.html

[Shiloh]

Re: Guinea: 60 cholera deaths in 2012

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...cfe5cb2bd9.2c1

Cholera outbreak in Guinea worsens
(AFP) ? 3 hours ago

CONAKRY ? An outbreak of cholera in Guinea has killed 60 people since February and is showing no signs of letting up, the country's health ministry said Thursday.

Officials have registered 2,054 cases, with the capital Conakry and the south-western city of Forecariah worst affected.

Thirteen people have died in Conakry and 23 in Forecariah...

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Guinea: 60 cholera deaths in 2012

Cholera outbreak in Guinea worsens
22:24 Sun Aug 19 2012AAP

An outbreak of cholera in Guinea has killed 82 people since February and is showing no signs of letting up, the country's health ministry says.
"A week ago we counted 60 dead and 2054 cases ... this week we have recorded 82 dead," Dr Sakoba Keita of the ministry's infectious diseases department told a press conference on Saturday.

The situation was "alarming", he added.

Coastal Basse-Guinee, particularly Forecariah in the southwest where the epidemic started in February, was the worst affected with 25 dead, followed by the capital Conakry with 17, officials said.
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http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8518732/cholera-outbreak-in-guinea-worsens

Agence France-Presse

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Guinea: 82 cholera deaths in 2012

Cholera in Sierra Leone and Guinea ( Situation as of 01 September 2012)
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Guinea: Between 02 February and 01 September 2012, 5 523 cases and 105 deaths (CFR: 1.9%) were reported from 10 (of 38) districts.
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http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Sierra-Leon_Guinea-Cholera-01sept2012.pdf

[Pathfinder]

Re: Guinea: 105 cholera deaths in 2012

GUINEA: Conakry residents demand cholera vaccine

CONAKRY, 13 September 2012 (IRIN) - With Guinea facing its gravest cholera outbreak since 2007, some residents of the capital Conakry are clamouring to be vaccinated.

Conakry - where rubbish is piled high at every turn, many neighbourhoods flood regularly and just 2.2 percent of households are linked to a sewage system - has seen at least 3,630 cases of cholera this year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), making it by far the hardest-hit area.

?We?re facing that pressure,? said Sakoba Ke?ta, head of disease prevention in the Guinean Health Ministry. ?Some Conakry residents hear that their home communities have been spared thanks to the vaccine and they want protection too.?

The cholera vaccine has shown promising results in the handful of communities where it has been used: none of those vaccinated have been infected.

Protection from cholera is generally assured with proper hygiene, good sanitation and access to safe water; it is precisely because of Guinea?s lack of water and sanitation systems that the vaccine has an important role, health experts say.

As of 4 September 5,938 people across Guinea were reported infected with cholera - a bacterial illness that can kill within hours if untreated - with 111 deaths, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) and the Health Ministry vaccinated some 143,000 people in Boffa and Forecariah prefectures in April-May, early in the cholera outbreak.

Full text:

http://www.irinnews.org/report/96301/GUINEA-Conakry-residents-demand-cholera-vaccine

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Guinea: 105 cholera deaths in 2012

Guinea and Sierra Leone ? Cholera crisis
Situation Report No. 2 (as of 17 September 2012)

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The cholera epidemic in Sierra Leone and Guinea has
eased, with both countries reporting decreasing
number of new cases for three weeks in a row.
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New weekly caseload down for third week in a row in both countries
The cholera epidemic in Sierra Leone and Guinea has eased, with both countries reporting decreasing number of
new cases for three weeks in a row. A total of 25,107 cases and 392 deaths were reported as of 16 September
(end of Week 37), compared to 21,772 cases and 362 deaths on 4 September. The situation is improving faster in
Guinea in terms of new cases; and in Sierra Leone in term of lethality. The number of affected districts remains
unchanged: 12 out of 13 in Sierra Leone and 11 out of 33 in Guinea.
The epidemic in Sierra Leone is the worst since 1995, and the Government declared a national emergency. In
Guinea, the number of cases this year may still exceed the 8,300 cases reported in 2007. In both countries, the first
cases for 2012 were reported early in the year during the dry season. While a total of 573 cases had been reported
in Guinea and 3,149 in Sierra Leone as of 30 June, the situation worsened considerably when heavy rains started
in July. Altogether, over 8.5 million people live in the affected areas of both countries.

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Guinea: Weekly new cases 70 per cent down since the end the August, continue to expand geographically
As of 16 September, the Guinea Ministry of Health had confirmed 6,599 cases, with 121 deaths. The fall in the reported weekly cases is 70 per cent when compared to peak Week 34 (ending 26 August). However, the case fatality rate, while down, remains higher than in Sierra Leone: 1.44 per cent in week 37 and 1.83 per cent since January.
While the number of affected prefectures remains the same (10 out of 33), new communities within affected prefectures are reporting cases.
The difference in lethality is considerable between Conakry (24 deaths for 4,268 cases, CFR 0.56 per cent) and the rest of the country (97 deaths for 2.331 cases, CFR 4.16 per cent).
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http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Full%20Report_992.pdf

[Shiloh]

Re: Guinea: 121 cholera deaths in 2012

Source: http://www.voanews.com/content/new_m...k/1568833.html

New, More Virulent Cholera Strain Caused Guinea Outbreak
Nancy Palus
December 20, 2012

DAKAR, SENEGAL ? Scientists say the cholera outbreak that struck more than 7,000 people in Guinea this year was caused by a more toxic and more contagious generation of the bacteria. Researchers suspect the same strain killed nearly 300 people and struck more than 22,000 others in neighboring Sierra Leone.

Through genetic sequencing of the cholera bacteria found in Guinea, epidemiologists working with the United Nations Children's Fund have identified them as atypical variants of the O1 El Tor strain...