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Cholera experts on way to DRC

    NAIROBI

    The Ugandan government is to send a team of health experts to contain a cholera epidemic in northeast DRC, news agencies reported. The Ugandan commissioner of health services, Sam Okware, said on Friday that the purpose of the mission was “to protect Ugandans from a spillover of the epidemic”, the semi-official ‘New Vision’ newspaper reported. He said the experts were to reach the northeast Congolese town of Aru over the weekend. Sixty-three Congolese cholera patients were reported to have been treated in the nearby Ugandan border town of Arua over the past two weeks, it said

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