Cholera -- Zimbabwe
On 6 Sep 2018, a cholera outbreak in Harare was declared by the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) of Zimbabwe and notified to WHO on the same day. 25 patients were admitted to a hospital in Harare presenting with diarrhea and vomiting on 5 Sep 2018. The 1st case, a 25-year-old woman, presented to a hospital and died on 5 Sep 2018. A sample from the woman tested positive for _Vibrio cholerae_ serotype O1 Ogawa. All 25 patients had typical cholera symptoms including excessive vomiting
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6043549&promed&0
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