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Cholera, measles, TB kill 100 people in Kano

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    An outbreak of cholera, measles and tuberculosis has killed at least 100 people in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, `The Guardian' of Lagos reported on Wednesday.

    The principal medical officer in charge of the state's Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), Dr. Mansur Muhammad told the newspaper that since the epidemic was first reported on 24 April, 1,000 persons had been admitted to the IDH: 700 for cholera, two for measles and 300 for tuberculosis
    (TB).

    "The situation is under control," he said.

    Government, he added, had moved quickly to check the outbreak by providing free anti-TB drugs, which it had never done before.

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