Nearly 50 people have contracted cholera while attending a health conference in Kenya’s capital.<\/p>\n
The infected delegates were among hundreds who had gathered for the four-day forum organised by the Ministry of Health at a Nairobi hotel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
They have been isolated in a city hospital, but health officials say the number of people infected may rise.<\/p>\n
It is unclear how they caught the disease, which has led to five deaths in the past month.<\/p>\n
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholera.<\/p>\n
Most of those infected will have no or mild symptoms but, in severe cases, the disease can kill within hours if left untreated.<\/p>\n
In Yemen, a large cholera outbreak is fast approaching 300,000 cases, according to UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien. He described it as a “man-made catastrophe” caused by both sides of the country’s ongoing civil war.<\/p>\n
In a press release on 24 May, Kenya’s Ministry of Health said there had been 146 cases across the country since the outbreak began.<\/p>\n
Some of those infected had attended a wedding at an upmarket estate in Nairobi.<\/p>\n
As a result, authorities put in place emergency measures to try and curb its spread.<\/p>\n
An outbreak two years ago killed 65 people across Kenya.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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