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Cholera outbreak on DRC border “under control”

    NAIROBI

    An outbreak of cholera which has claimed 14 lives in camps for the war-displaced in Nyahuka, Bundibugyo district, along the border with DRC, since the start of June was now “under control” and on the wane, a spokesman for MSF-France told IRIN on Tuesday. There had been 218 cases of cholera and 14 deaths reported in Nyahuka in the first two weeks of the month, MSF told IRIN - stressing, however, that none of the deaths had occurred between 9 and 18 June. In Bundibugyo, there were 26 cases of cholera and no deaths in the two weeks to 18 June.

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