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Cholera breaks out in NW Burundi

Xinhua, January 4, 2017 Adjust font size:

Over 30 patients with cholera symptoms have been admitted to medical structures since last week in Burundi's northwestern Cibitoke province, Burundi National Radio reported Tuesday.

The state-run radio said that the most affected area is Rugombo town where medical sources confirmed that at least 29 cases of patients with cholera symptoms reported to health centers since Dec. 29, 2016.

The radio said that, until Tuesday, four persons with cholera symptoms were successfully treated and have gone back to their homes.

The radio also reported that no one has died of the epidemic, adding that the Burundi Red Cross has been disinfecting households where patients are coming from.

Residents in Rugombo town face shortages of potable water and drink unclean water from the River Rusizi.

For a long time, several localities in the western part of Burundi have suffered from serious shortages of clean drinking water and citizens living in poor neighborhoods drink unclean water from the River Rusizi or Lake Tanganyika, catching cholera bacteria. Endit