Over 1,000 people have been affected by a cholera outbreak in the northern state of Kano, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said in a news release on Wednesday.
The first cases were detected in mid-May. In the last week of June over 300 cases were reported by MSF and the state ministry of health. By the end of the month over 1,200 cases and 23 deaths had been reported, MSF said.
“The cholera treatment centre is running well at the moment. We’ve reduced the case fatality rate to below 2 percent, but the number of people arriving at the cholera treatment centre has doubled in the past weeks with about 40 new admissions each day,” Dr Roy Male, project co-ordinator of MSF in Kano, said.
Cholera is endemic in Kano State and over 7,000 cases were treated last year, MSF added.
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