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Cholera outbreaks hit several areas

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    The epidemiological situation has significantly deteriorated throughout the DRC, particularly in the eastern provinces, the Humanitarian Coordinator’s report said. Outbreaks of cholera were reported in the Walungu, Lemera, Uvira and Katana areas of South Kivu, in parts of North Kivu and Province Orientale, and in Kinshasa. Mortality rates had reached almost 12 percent but, as a result of the timely interventions of relief agencies in cholera-affected areas, the rates had gone down significantly, it said. A meningitis epidemic in Lubumbashi in mid-October was contained with the support of MSF and WHO, the report added.

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