Sep 15 2012
"Floods in Niger have killed 81 people since July, the U.N. Office for Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA] announced Thursday, adding cholera outbreaks have killed a further 81 people," Agence France-Presse reports. "Thousands of homes, schools, health centers and mosques have been destroyed, along with large quantities of food supplies, according to the authorities," the news service writes, adding, "Cholera is spreading fast in at least four places, making 3,854 people sick and notably affecting the Tillaberi regions lying by the Niger river and close to the border with Mali, OCHA said." The news service notes, "In neighboring Burkina Faso, heavy rains have killed 18 people and made 21,000 homeless since June. ... Senegal and Nigeria have also been affected by the bad weather" (9/13).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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