Ogun cholera: Monarch, 106 others hospitalised
There was palpable fear among the residents of Abeokuta on Friday as death toll in the outbreak of cholera in the Ogun State capital rose. Already, the state government has confirmed that three deaths had been recorded out of the 104 cases of …
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Two villages of Anand district declared as cholera-affected
Anand (Gujarat), Jul 20: District administration has declared two villages in the district as cholera-hit. Cholera cases were found at Boria and Silvai villages of Petlad tehsil, district health officer R B Patel said today. At Boria, the surrounding …
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UN Still Refusing Responsibility For Haiti's Cholera Outbreak
ON JULY 5 the United Nations refused, again, to countenance the claims of 5,000 cholera-affected Haitians against it. The Haitians contend that grossly inadequate sanitation at a U.N. peacekeeping base introduced and spread the disease through the …
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Cholera count climbs to 16, gastro grounds 1300 patients
MUMBAI: Waterborne diseases continue to ail Mumbaikars as eight more cholera cases have been detected in the past seven days. Gastroenteritis, too, has seen an overwhelming rise at more than 1,300 cases in the first 15 days of July. Lately, several …
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Sensor to detect cholera quickly
Researchers have fabricated a new sensor that can quickly detect Vibrio cholerae, the cholera-causing bug, in clinical samples. 1. Conventional diagnosis methods of cholera are based on culture of bacterium, biochemical reactions and agglutination …
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