At least 131 people have died since September in Mozambique due to cholera, and another 19,934 have been hospitalized, indicates the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health (MISAU).
In the country’s hospitals, 141 patients are currently hospitalized, and 90 new cases have been registered in the last 24 hours, according to the update from the National Directorate of Public Health.
According to MISAU, the country currently has a cumulative 29,370 cases of cholera and a lethality rate of 0.4%.
“This is the largest epidemic of this disease in the last 20 years,” said the Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, during the opening of a meeting on the subject, this Tuesday, May 2, in Maputo.
He also said that the number of cases tends to reduce at the same time that vaccination advances.
According to the minister, from a total of 40 affected districts, at least 18 had declared the end of the epidemic by Monday.
Cholera is a treatable disease that causes severe diarrhea, but can cause death by dehydration if not promptly combated. It originates largely from eating food and water contaminated by poor sanitation.
