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UNHCR, Ministry of Health Scramble to Contain Cholera Outbreak in Niger

UNHCR, Ministry of Health Scramble to Contain Cholera Outbreak in Niger

From All Africa

Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabéry Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees.

Among the sick are 31 Malian refugees who are living in Tabareybarey and Mangaize camps near the Mali border, according to the Tillabéry health services and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

In the camps and in surrounding villages, UNHCR has upped the supply of clean water to refugees, is distributing oral rehydration solution, soap, and disinfectant tabs to clean water, but more drugs are urgently needed, it said in a 21 May communiqué. NGO Médecins sans Frontières is treating those who have contracted cholera in camps.

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