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Event: EP Epidemic
Number: 2012-000069
Country: GHA Ghana
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Date (YMD): 2012-5-2
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Information Source:IFRC
Comments: The Ghana Health Service has officially declared the cholera outbreak in the country. Because of the high mobility of people from one community to another as a result of funerals, trade, and other personal and commercial activities it is envisaged that the epidemics will spread very fast if massive intervention measures are not taken within the shortest possible time. According to the Ghana Health service as at the second week of April 2012 there were 684 reported cases of cholera with 17 deaths, but as at 24th April 2012, over 1,570 cases have been recorded with 21 cases in 2 Regions of Ghana. In Greater Accra region the numbers of reported cases are 1,270 with 20 deaths and Eastern Region 300 confirmed cases with 1 death recorded. This outbreak spread is related to poor sanitation conditions and migration from affected regions to other regions.
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