Cholera outbreak engulfs coastal slums of West Africa
An exceptionally rainy season this year flooded the shantytowns in Freetown and Conakry in Sierra Leone and neighbouring Guinea, spreading cholera all around – a disease transmitted through contact with faeces. The slums, without adequate sanitation conditions have been the unfortunate breeding grounds for this disease. In Sierra Leone, cholera has already claimed 176 lives. Read more here and here.
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