No fewer than 173 people have been reported dead in Kano due to cholera outbreak that is ravaging the 44 local governments in Kano State, the state’s Epidemiologist and Deputy Director of Public Health and Disease Control, Dr. Bashir Lawan Muhammad has revealed.

According him, from March to July 2021 the state treated 4,932 out of the 5,316 active cases of the disease and have all been discharged, saying that the outbreak started in March 2021, when the state started recording cases in only one local government.

He told the Vanguard that “as I speak to you now, the problem has escalated to 41 local government areas.

“We have been doing the needful through our emergency and response units as well as chlorination of hundreds of houses and wells across the affected local government areas,” he explained.

Dr. Bashir Lawan Muhammad further explained that the rainy season has contributed to the rise in the number of cases of cholera cases in both the private and government-owned hospitals because of poor personal as well as environmental hygiene.

The state epidemiologist also added that cholera outbreak is seasonal in the state and is easily transmitted by flies open dedication and other stool which some farmers use as manure in their farms, adding that “iIt serves as an avenue of contracting the disease after eating the farm produce from those farms.”

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