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Current Feed ContentANGOLA: Flooding brings surge in choleraWidespread flooding in southern Angola has been blamed for a surge in cholera, with 4,500 cases of the waterborne disease reported this year, and 150 fatalities. According to Angola's health ministry, there were 590 new cases in the week running up to 31 March, up from the 503 cases reported the previous week. About half of the infections were in Angola's southern provinces of Cunene and Huila, which have been hard hit by flooding. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of...ANGOLA: New clues to mystery illnessThe number of people affected by a mystery illness that has already claimed the lives of 4 children on the outskirts of the Angolan capital, Luanda, has climbed to 284. Contaminated food is a suspect but authorities are still in the dark as to the exact cause. "More than 80 percent [of cases] are children, and the four deaths that happened were kids," Vita Vemba, Luanda's provincial health director, told IRIN. The children who had succumbed to the illness were already weakened by high levels...ANGOLA: Mystery disease strikes 200, kills fourAn undiagnosed disease that has affected 200 and left at least four dead in Cacuaco, about 20km north of the Angolan capital, Luanda, has health organisations scrambling to identify the illness. The first cases were reported in early October. "What we know is that new cases keep arriving at the hospital," Balbina Felix, disease control officer at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Luanda, told IRIN. According to the Municipal Hospital in Cacuaco, 20 new cases per day have been reported... |
