The United Nations has revealed that three people have died of cholera and 39 were infected in the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon’s Far North region.
Cholera, an acute diarrheal disease contracted by drinking water or eating food products contaminated with the vibrio cholera bacterium, that can kill within hours if left untreated, periodically reappears in Cameroon, a central African country with a population of more than 25 million.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was “deeply saddened by the deaths of three refugees from cholera, and that it was working “with the Cameroonian government and UN agencies, to provide urgent care for those who are ill and to break the chain of transmission.