About 575 cases of cholera, 28 of them fatal, had been confirmed in the northern Nigerian state of Kano up until Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Lagos has reported. The areas affected are densely populated and have poor sanitation, according to WHO, which said the cholera cases were confirmed by the Kano State Health Commissioner. The inhabitants of most of these areas get their drinking water from shallow hand-dug unprotected wells, WHO added. It said its surveillance officer in Kano was helping the state's authorities to carry out surveillance and data management. Suspected water bodies and other sources of infection are being disinfected while a public enlightenment campaign is underway, WHO-Nigeria said in a news release to IRIN on Friday.
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