In our communities people are helping each other in educating themselves about keeping their homes clean to avoid outbreak diseases like cholera and malaria. Through this there has been a decrease in cholera outbreak.
Solidarity and climate change have a lot in common because people have to work together to reduce the effects of climate change in their communities. But also solidarity encourages everyone in the family or society to participate fully in conserving the environment.
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Date: 08. of November 2009 | By: cholera
Cholera, an acute illness that presents with excessive watery diarrhoea plus vomiting, can lead to death within three to four hours after infection, if not treated quickly. It is common during the rainy season and in communities with poor sanitation.Drinking untreated or unboiled water from a water source and unprotected streams; eating cold or left-over food exposed to dust, flies and cockroaches; eating unwashed foods and vegetables and not washing hands with soap and clean water after using the toilet also spread the disease.According to the people, latrines are helping to keep flies away, leading to fewer disease germs being spread from place to place and there is less fecal seepage into water bodies. The result has been that there have been fewer diseases – less diarrhea, less worms, less cholera, and less typhoid fever.
Date: 08. of November 2009 | By: dar
Cholera is widely regarded as an epidemic in many parts of the world, but in some African countries like Tanzania, the disease is on and off -- almost endemic. The disease is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and is spread by consuming contaminated food or water.At least 59 people have died of cholera from August till October in Tanzania, mostly in the north-eastern coastal region of Tanga.
- There are reports of new infections. We had 60 new cases last week in Tanga alone - said Blandina Nyoni, permanent secretary in the ministry of health.
She said 3,454 cases of cholera have been recorded in the Tanga region in the past two months, with Handeni district hardest hit by the water-borne disease.
Nyoni told AFP additional health personnel and medical supplies were sent to the affected areas earlier this month.
She said the government has also stepped up public health education, advising people to boil drinking water and to build and use latrines.
Schools in Handeni have been closed until November, as part of the campaign.
Date: 08. of November 2009 | By: dar
Cholera is widely regarded as an epidemic in many parts of the world, but in some African countries like Tanzania, the disease is on and off -- almost endemic. The disease is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and is spread by consuming contaminated food or water.At least 59 people have died of cholera from August till October in Tanzania, mostly in the north-eastern coastal region of Tanga.
- There are reports of new infections. We had 60 new cases last week in Tanga alone - said Blandina Nyoni, permanent secretary in the ministry of health.
She said 3,454 cases of cholera have been recorded in the Tanga region in the past two months, with Handeni district hardest hit by the water-borne disease.
Nyoni told AFP additional health personnel and medical supplies were sent to the affected areas earlier this month.
She said the government has also stepped up public health education, advising people to boil drinking water and to build and use latrines.
Schools in Handeni have been closed until November, as part of the campaign.