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Kasese cholera outbreak on the wane

    NAIROBI

    The ministry of health has reported continuing cases of cholera in Kasese, Arua, Bundibugyo and Kampala, a UN humanitarian update stated on Sunday. However, a serious epidemic which accounted for 248 cases in two weeks in Kasese in late September had been brought under control by a combined team from the ministry, ICRC, MSF-France and the Kasese District Cholera Task Force. Fewer than 10 cases per week were now being reported. The total number of reported cases from the start of the year was now 4,397, with 200 deaths and a case fatality rate of 4.5 percent, the report added.

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