Zimbabwe is on the brink of having 100,000 infections of cholera, a preventable disease that has already killed 4,283 people there and remains a serious threat, the Zimbabwean Red Cross and its partners said on Tuesday.
Using slashed fruits, direct exposure to dust, substandard drinks prepared through unhygienic ways cause dangerous diseases out breaks like gastro-enteritis, hepatitis A & E, typhoid, cholera and others. This was stated by Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) Chairman Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh while addressing a lecture held under the auspices of PMS.
The monsoon may be some time away but waterborne diseases like cholera have already registered a rise in numbers in Delhi.
According to the latest daily disease surveillance report, dated May 18, released by the MCD Health department, 37 cholera-related cases and deaths were reported from the city in the first fifteen days of May.
In July 1994, 500,000 to 800,000 Rwandans crossed the border into the North Kivu region of Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC). During the first month after the influx, almost 50,000 refugees died; cholera was a major contributor.
May 14: The report submitted by the Institute of Preventive medicine (IPM) after testing 10 samples said that none of the samples tested positive. This report was submitted to the state health officials on Thursday.
May 14: With there being no vaccine against cholera as yet, the state health officials are having a tough time. The secretary of health, Mr L.V. Subramaniam, says that a vaccine against cholera is only in its trial stages at the Central Research Institute in Kasouli, Himachal Pradesh. It can be expected only by August.
May 12: The disease outbreak in Bholakpur seem-ed out of control with one more person succumbing and 53 fresh cases of diarrhoea and vomiting being reported on Tuesday. The toll in eight days of cholera in Bholakpur in the city now stands at 13.
May 12: Diseases supposedly on the verge of eradication have reared their deadly head in the state. A cholera epidemic in Bholakpur, an anthrax outbreak in Visakhapatnam and the recurrence of polio cases, are the recent reminders that yesterday
May 11: The National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases on Monday confirmed what the city had feared: That the outbreak of disease in some areas is cholera. NICED said the cholera outbreak was due to water contaminated with sewage.
May 10: Two more people from Bholakpur succumbed to acute diarrhoea and vomiting on Sunday taking the death toll to 12 while 67 fresh cases were reported from new areas.
Andalamma was admitted on May 3 to the Fever Hospital and was later shifted to Osmania Hospital. Ghouse Pasha had been undergoing treatment at the Osmania Hospital from the start.
