By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Lexpress
Five of the 292 people affected by food poisoning remain hospitalised in Madagascar, while 287 have left healthcare facilities. No deaths or cases of complications have been reported, according to a statement from Madagascar’s Ministry of Public Health reported by L’Express.
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The World Health Organization is requesting an additional $550,000 to monitor diseases and strengthen healthcare in Djibouti, where more than 3,800 people from Yemen have arrived. In Obock, 44 cases of acute watery diarrhoea and one death had been recorded by 8 October, according to the WHO.
🇩🇯 Djibouti · Source: Mali Actu ·
Nigeria’s Benue State spent more than 160 million naira on treatment for displaced people bitten by snakes between March and September, according to James Iorpuu, executive secretary of the emergency management agency. Treatment was provided at Benue University Teaching Hospital, while the authorities are also maintaining food distributions despite dwindling resources, Punch reports.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Punch ·
Four cases of plague have been confirmed in Madagascar since the end of July, including in the Analamanga region. The Ministry of Public Health is monitoring the situation and conducting awareness-raising activities, according to Lexpress.
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Source: Lexpress ·
Two cases of Ebola, including one death, have been confirmed in the Wapinda health zone in North-Ubangi, in north-western DR Congo. A team of seven experts has been deployed to find and isolate people at high risk, according to RFI reports relayed by AGP.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: Agpgabon ·
El Niño threatens more than 2.5 million people in southern MadagascarAction Against Hunger warns that El Niño is expected to worsen drought in Madagascar’s Grand South, where more than 2.5 million people are already facing acute food insecurity. The NGO expects the worst food crisis in the region in the coming months since the 2021 crisis, according to RFI.
Ebola: Kenya confirms eighth case linked to first patientKenya has confirmed an eighth Ebola case in a 49-year-old man who worked as an assistant to a patient and developed a fever, headaches and muscle pain. He is believed to have been exposed to the first case recorded in the country, according to the Kenyan Health Ministry cited by Reuters, while the outbreak is also spreading in a new Congolese province.The week in Africa
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