At least 13 killed in suspected cholera outbreak in Kenya
AFP, June, 2006
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ISIOLO, Kenya (AFP) — A suspected cholera outbreak has killed at least 13 people and sickened dozens of others in a remote village in central Kenya.
The outbreak, believed to have been caused by villagers drinking water from a contaminated well, hit the isolated Sericho village in Isiolo district, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Nairobi on Sunday, officials said Tuesday.
"We have received reports of the 13 deaths. Health personnel and drugs have been dispatched to Sericho and we hope we will be able to put the situation under control," district medical superintendent Machan Mirichi said.
"We suspect it is cholera because people drank from a contaminated well," he told AFP.
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