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Data on the summary of suspected cholera cases, produced by the National Institute of Health Research, which the Lusa agency has access to today, indicate that the laboratory has received three cases suspects from the municipality of Bolongongo, Cuanza Norte province, and the remnants of Luanda, Samba (two), Sambizanga (one), Ingombota (one), Viana (two), Cacuaco (six) and one without identification.
beginning of the epidemic, from May 28 to July 23 of the current year, the laboratory received 68 suspected cholera samples from the provinces of Luanda (65) and Cuanza Norte (three) , as well as cholera vibrios (19659002) "In addition, 52 samples were negative and four were pending (one of them) in Luanda province and three in Cuanza Norte province [12] Of the total accumulated between May and July, 12 cases of cholera in children and adults between one year and 63 years were confirmed in Luanda – Talatona, Rocha Pinto, Samba, Belas and Cacuaco
This year, the provinces Uíge and Cabinda, both located in northern Angola, have already been ravaged by cholera epidemics that have affected more than 600 people and more than a dozen deaths in the country. first, ten cases and at least one death, recorded in February of this year.
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