Chad: Cholera toll at 400+

[Ronan Kelly]

Rainy season to aggravate Chad cholera outbreak

Thu Jun 2, 2011 12:07pm EDT

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - The death toll from an outbreak of cholera in Chad has risen above 100, authorities said, while aid group Oxfam warned it could leap further this month with the onset of the rainy season.

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by food or water contaminated with bacteria, prompting diarrhea and vomiting. Infected people can die of dehydration, sometimes within a matter of hours, if left untreated.

A total 102 have died from the outbreak so far, a health ministry official said by telephone.

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Re: Chad: Cholera toll tops 100

Re: Chad: Cholera toll tops 100

13 Aug 2011

Chad
Thousands of lives at risk in Chad due to cholera epidemic

Report
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UN Children's Fund

By Cheryl Uys-Allie

N’DJAMENA, Chad, 11 August 2011 - Cholera has resurged in Chad affecting more than 7000 people since March 2011, most of whom are the poorest and most vulnerable.

VIDEO: July 2011 - UNICEF correspondent Cheryl Uys-Allie reports on the risks Chad's population is facing due to Cholera epidemic, which is affecting especially vulnerable children since March 2011.

“We’ve had two outbreaks of cholera,” explains the regional health supervisor at the hospital in Tandjile, Elie Fokzia. “The first was in October 2010, which lasted one month. The second wave of cholera was detected on 25 March in the same village.”

Emergency workers in the capital, N’Djamena, however, believe that the first outbreak never really disappeared.

“The epidemic of 2010 never really ended. So the epidemic we have in 2011 is a continuation,” said Jessica Donoyer, Programme Manager for WASH Cholera (Action Contre la Faim), a French non-governmental organization working with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partner organizations.

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[Ronan Kelly]

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Re: Chad: Cholera toll tops 100

Chad: Over 300 dead in cholera outbreak
Thursday 1 September 2011 / 15:56

Over three hundred people died of cholera, said Thursday that the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), reports Le Monde. According to the French NGO, the epidemic could be the worst since 1971. "The Chadian Ministry of Health counted 11,337 cases of cholera and 349 deaths since the beginning of the year," she said. She said the report "is still very preliminary, and estimates of health authorities and humanitarian agencies in Chad have reported 25 000 new cases by the end of the year, from 300 to 500 new deaths cholera. "The epidemic, which continues to grow, is caused by lack of sanitation and drinking water, said the NGOs operating there, says JournalduTchad.

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Re: Chad: Cholera toll at 349

Re: Chad: Cholera toll at 349

Wed Sep 07 2011
Red Cross says cholera epidemic hit 364 deaths so far this year


CHOLERA Malnourished and weak, Sacdiyo Ali, 3, drinks in the overcrowded Banadir Hospital on August 12, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. The UN warned Friday that a cholera epidemic could spread through Mogadishu, as Somalis fill unsanitary makeshift camps throughout the city.
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GENEVA The Red Cross says Chad faces a cholera epidemic with 12,713 cases and 364 deaths recorded so far this year.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says cholera has spread to 33 of Chad?s 62 districts and the number of cases could double within a few weeks in the fall rainy season.

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Re: Chad: Cholera toll at 364

Re: Chad: Cholera toll at 364

Cholera outbreak in Chad has been at least 400 people were killed and Yu Wan infection

September 16, 2011 Source: Global Vision Copy , according to United Nations reports, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Chad Nightingale Turner (Thomas Gurtner) 15, said Chad major cholera epidemic broke out, there are at least 400 people were killed and 13,000 people infected. Despite the Chadian government and aid agencies are trying to control the epidemic, but now the country is in the rainy season, large numbers of people lack adequate sanitation facilities, disease will spread further.

Nightingale Turner said: "We can do in the current crisis is to reduce mortality of infected populations, but in the next 4-8 weeks a significant reduction in infection rates is very difficult and now we estimate that the epidemic has not yet reached In the end of this year will be delayed peak of the rainy season, although Chad is trying to deal with, but very likely also has 10,000 to 15,000 people infected. "

Siegel also said Turner, Chad, there are currently more than 1.5 million people short of food, there are 80,000 people returned from the instability of Libya, which will make the situation even more severe response to cholera. Source BEIJING)

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