The health ministry announced Wednesday, six regions in Kenya have been badly infected with cholera outbreaks including its capital Nairobiwith, a total of 60 cases registered nationwide.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection causing mostlyfatal dehydration. It is generally contracted from food and water contaminated with cholera bacteria.
The Kenyan health authorities have confirmed this cholera outbreak in the country, including 17 cases in Nairobi.
31 cases, half of the national total, were reported in Kiambu. A total of 13 people have been hospitalised due to cholera, the authorities said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said there was a shortage of cholera vaccine doses, forcing a temporary shift to a one-dose strategy, from the usual two, in campaigns to fight a swelling number of outbreaks worldwide.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 29 countries have reported outbreaks so far this year.
