Catherine Vincent
Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 25 October 2011 09.05 EDT
Western and central Africa are facing one of the biggest cholera epidemics in their history, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund said last month, in reporting that more than 85,000 cases of cholera have been registered since the beginning of the year, with nearly 2,500 deaths.
Unicef has identified three main cholera epidemic outbreaks in the Lake Chad basin, the West Congo basin and Lake Tanganyika. The disease, which is spreading along watercourses, has been made worse by the recent rainy season. Five countries – Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) and Chad – account for 90% of the reported cases and fatalities.
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