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… 171 cases recorded
Symptoms, including severe diarrhea, can surface within two hours or up to five days after infection, and can then trigger extreme dehydration and kidney failure.
At least 20 persons have been reported dead from acute diarrheal disease in a community in Adoni local government area of Rivers State.
The state’s commissioner for Health, Sampsom Parker, confirmed the situation in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Wednesday.
According to him, a total of about 171 cases have also been recorded following the January 5 outbreak of cholera in the area.
The commissioner, who assured members of the public of government’s determination to curtail the spread of the disease, noted that two treatment centres have been set up in two of the worst hit communities.
Cholera (gastroenteritis), according to research is caused by an infection in the intestinal wall and can kill even a healthy adult within a short period.
...culled from Yohaig
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