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More Deaths Feared From Cholera in Cameroon

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   IDABATO, CAMEROON - Cameroonian health and emergency personnel are
   working to stem a cholera outbreak that has killed at least a dozen
   people and sickened at least 100 others in the Bakassi Peninsula that
   shares a maritime boundary with Nigeria.

   It is feared the outbreak will claim more lives in the coastal area,
   which lacks health infrastructure.

   Emergency medical workers, together with some civilians, are working to
   improve hygiene and sanitation by clearing dirt and debris from water
   beneath houses on the shores in the area. Among them is 31-year-old
   Cameroonian fisherman Lucas Emimo, who says he lost his younger sister
   to cholera. Emimo says he has joined the humanitarian workers because
   he fears many more people may die from the infectious disease that
   causes severe watery diarrhea, leading to dehydration and even death if
   untreated.

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