Twenty-seven die of unknown disease

Health authorities reported 27 people dead form an unidentified disease that last week struck Ladara, a locale 600 km north of Niamey, PANA reported on Thursday quoting state owned radio. The disease is characterised by vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, swelling of the stomach, convulsion and coma it said. Health authorities have treated wells with chlorine and residents with tetracycline and Chloroquine. No new cases of the disease were reported four days after medical intervention. Authorities said 48 people had been treated and returned to their homes. Stool samples are being analysed in the capital, Niamey.