No fewer than 479 people have been killed in the current outbreak of Cholera in different parts of Nigeria, Africa Today News, New York reports.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in it latest situation report.
It said since the beginning of this year, a total of 19,305 suspected cases have been recorded and that the disease has spread to 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The states were listed as Benue, Delta, Zamfara, Gombe, Bayelsa, Kogi, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kano, and Kaduna.
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Others are Plateau, Kebbi, Cross River, Niger, Nasarawa, Jigawa, Yobe, Kwara and the FCT.
‘As at July 11, 2021, a total of 19,305 suspected cases including 479 deaths (CFR 2.5%) have been reported from 18 states and FCT since the beginning of 2021.’
‘Of the reported cases since the beginning of the year, 11.0% are aged 5 – 14 years. Of all suspected cases, 52% are males and 48% are females,’ the report read in part.
The report said there has been an increase in the number of new cases in Bauchi, Kano Jigawa and Kwara.
According to the report, Cholera killed 31 people between July 5 and July 11, 2021.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoea disease caused by a bacteria called vibrio cholera. It is a potentially life-threatening, and primarily a water-borne disease.
Symptoms of the disease include nausea and vomiting , dehydration which can lead to shock, kidney injury and sudden death , passage of profuse pale and milky, watery stool (rice water coloured), and body weakness.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK