China News Agency, Beijing, December 19th Abuja News: According to Nigerian media reports, a cholera outbreak broke out in Cross River State in southern Nigeria. Local officials said on the 18th that the outbreak had caused at least 20 deaths and more than 30 people were hospitalized.
According to the Nigerian "Guardian", the local government has established a rapid response team to the outbreak, which has launched operations in and around the area where the outbreak occurred.
The Guardian quoted a local village chief as saying that it all started when some villagers started experiencing severe diarrhea and dehydration, and it was later discovered that the disease was spreading very quickly.
According to the Nigerian News Agency, the area where the cholera outbreak occurred is a farming community that has been facing problems of lack of access to drinking water and good sanitation.
According to local officials quoted by the media, the cholera epidemic has spread in 10 villages in the state, and 100 people in these villages have been diagnosed with cholera.
Government departments have rushed medicines and medical supplies to areas affected by the outbreak.
According to the website of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in Nigeria, cholera is an endemic and seasonal infectious disease that occurs mainly during the rainy season every year and more often in areas with poor sanitation.
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