Cholera cases on French island of Mayotte grow to 26
The Peninsula
Mamoudzou: Mayotte, a French island in the Indian Ocean, said Sunday it had identified a total of 26 cases of cholera, stretching its care capabilitie...
Mamoudzou: Mayotte, a French island in the Indian Ocean, said Sunday it had identified a total of 26 cases of cholera, stretching its care capabilities to the limit.
On Friday, Mayotte had reported its first three locally acquired cases of the disease, which came in addition to 10 imported cases detected over the past month.
After patient numbers doubled in 48 hours, the medical staffing situation at the Mayotte main hospital was "highly critical", said Olivier Brahic, the head of the ARS health authority.
ARS said it had opened a second cholera unit at the hospital after the first unit, with a capacity of 14, had been overwhelmed.
Cholera is an infectious disease typically causing severe diarrhoea, vomiting and muscle cramps, which spreads easily under insufficient sanitation conditions.
