The first three cases of “native” cholera were identified in Mayotte, where ten imported cases have been recorded since mid-March among immigrants mainly from neighboring Comoros, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) announced this Friday, April 26.
Ces cas, les premiers à découler d’une contamination interne au département de l’océan Indien ont été “identifiés dans la commune de Koungou” au north de Mamoudzou, a récisé Olivier Brahic, directeur général de l’ARS, lors d’une Press conference. He added that “most likely” these patients have been contaminated by “a patient (who) did not show up at Samu.”
An increase in cases around the world.
Cholera, which is contracted from bacteria usually transmitted through contaminated water or food, causes diarrhea and vomiting and can be dangerous for young children.
These previous announcements, the cases are multiplied in the world below: 473,000 cases on the WHO signals in 2022, so the two are more than an auparavant, and the preliminary data indicate that more than 700,000 cases on the signal signals. ‘last year. The most severe impacts are being felt in Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somalia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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