Cholera outbreak surged by 220% in 2024-NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has stated that the cholera outbreak in Nigeria has seen on a sharp increase in 2024, with suspected cases rising by an alarming 220 per cent.
The NCDC, on its official website, said that this was according to the latest epidemiological report.
Communities with limited access to sanitation are most affected.
Conflict, climate change, inadequate safe water and sanitation, poverty, underdevelopment, and population displacement due to emerging and re-emerging conflicts and disasters from natural hazards all contribute to the rise in cholera outbreaks.
The Nigerian Public Health Agency said that by the end of epidemiological week 39, the country had recorded ten thousand eight hundred and thirty seven suspected cases and three hundred and fifty nine deaths.
It said that the figure represented two hundred and thirty nine per cent increase in fatalities compared to 2023.
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