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Nearly half of a thousand people have died from cholera outbreak in about half of the states of the federation since the beginning of this year, 2021.<\/span>
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, made this known in a report in which it disclosed that a total 19,305 suspected infections have been reported this year. However, the disease killed 479 of the infected people in 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.<\/p>\n

According to Daily Trust, the states were listed as Benue, Delta, Zamfara, Gombe, Bayelsa, Kogi, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kano, and Kaduna.<\/p>\n

Others are Plateau, Kebbi, Cross River, Niger, Nasarawa, Jigawa, Yobe, Kwara and the FCT.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs at July 11, 2021, a total of 19,305 suspected cases including 479 deaths (CFR 2.5 per cent) have been reported from 18 states and FCT since the beginning of 2021. Of the reported cases since the beginning of the year, 11.0 per cent are aged 5 \u2013 14 years.<\/p>\n

Of all suspected cases, 52 per cent are males and 48 per cent are females,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n

The report said there has been an increase in the number of new cases in Bauchi, Kano Jigawa and Kwara.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Cholera killed 31 people between July 5 and July 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

Cholera is an acute diarrhea disease caused by bacteria called vibrio cholera. It is a potentially life-threatening, and primarily a water-borne disease.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of the disease include nausea and vomiting , dehydration which can lead to shock, kidney injury and sudden death , passage of profuse pale and milky, watery stool (rice water coloured), and body weakness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly half of a thousand people have died from cholera outbreak in about half of the states of…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,2],"tags":[185,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cholera","9":"tag-kogi"},"yoast_head":"\nCholera Ravages Kogi, 17 Other States, Kills 479 People - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/cholera-ravages-kogi-17-other-states-kills-479-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cholera Ravages Kogi, 17 Other States, Kills 479 People - 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