Tuesday, 7 November 2017

PRO/EDR> Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update (128): Africa, Asia, Americas

Cholera -- DR Congo
The efforts of humanitarian partners to achieve the objective of zero cases of cholera continue with encouraging results. Thus, between January and September 2017, the country recorded a total of 10 814 suspected cases of cholera and 107 deaths against 30 211 cases and 289 deaths for the same period of 2016, a decrease of 64.2 percent.
The highest peak in the number of cholera cases occurred in the department of Artibonite with 64.9 percent of the suspected cases in the month of September

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