Two out of the eight people admitted at Naguru hospital with cholera symptoms, tested positive to the disease - pending confirmatory tests by the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL).

Two out of the eight people admitted at Naguru hospital with cholera symptoms, tested positive to the disease - pending confirmatory tests by the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL).

An outbreak of cholera/ acute watery diarrhea (AWD) in Somalia has killed 42 people since December, a UN health agency said on Thursday.

No fewer than 377,000 people have been vaccinated against cholera in Adamawa, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

At least 45 people have been killed by cholera in Zimbabwe in the past three weeks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday, describing the strain as "multi-drug resistant".

A cholera outbreak in Nigeria's northeast has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks and infected thousands more, the United Nations said.

A cholera outbreak has killed 10 people in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare after they drank contaminated water, a city health official said on Sunday.

Maiduguri — Four more people have died of cholera in Borno State.This takes the number of deaths from cholera outbreak in the North East state to 18 from 14, as 300 new cases were recorded from Sep

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said that seven deaths have been recorded from the outbreak of cholera in four communities in the territory.

The Federal Ministry of Health says in spite of the health and economic benefits of exclusive breastfeeding to mother and child, only 24 per cent of infants are exclusively breastfed in Nigeria.

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