The Acting General Manager of the Ebonyi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Sunday Opoke, has said that over 3,000 water-boreholes are currently dilapidated in the state.
Khartoum — Sudan's Health Ministry on Sunday said it raised the level of alert to prevent transmission of cholera to the Sudanese territories from South Sudan.
Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the feasibility and protective effect of delivering such a vaccine through routine government services in urban Bangladesh and evaluated the benefit of adding behavioural interventions to encourage safe drinking water and hand washing to vaccination in this setting.
Use of oral vaccines is proving to be an effective tool to control outbreaks of cholera, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, adding that the deadly water-borne disease is a major publi
The council chairman, Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau state, Dan Dul, said 10 persons have, in the past few days, died of cholera in the area.
Cholera has killed at least 18 people in Juba, capital of South Sudan, in the last three weeks and the government will step up measures to counter the spread of the disease, the health minister Rie
Blantyre — Water tested from one shallow well at Manase Township in Blantyre has tested positive of fecal contamination, unfortunately, it is the well from which most people draw water for domestic
