Guinea-Bissau: Cholera epidemic out of control
With 6,461 cholera cases and 122 deaths, experts say the cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau is out of control.
The number of reported cases has doubled in the past three weeks. All of the country's 11 health regions have been affected, including the remote Bijagos islands, 60 km off the Bissau coast, which have reported 158 cases.
“At the moment, though measures are in place to deal with the epidemic, the situation is not under control,” said Daniel Remartinez, emergency coordinator of the Spanish branch of non-governmental organisation (NGO) Médecins sans Frontières (MSF-S).
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