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Photo: GEORGE OSODI / AP / TT
Women and children in Maradi, in southern Niger, queue in front of a doctor without an office at the border. Stock Photography.
Nearly 1,000 people became ill and 13 died in Niger, where an epidemic of cholera ravages. Most of the sick are children living in the southern region of Maradi, according to the United Nations Emergency Relief Agency (OCHA).
The first cases were discovered a month ago. After that, at least 50 cases were discovered in the city of Maradi, which is the Nigerian economic center.
The country's health ministers say the situation is under control and that the infection is being invoked. Experts fear, however, that the contagious cholera bacteria will spread further through the floods caused by heavy rains in the region.
The cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae is transmitted through food and contaminated water. This results in violent diarrhea leading to severe dehydration.
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