Monday, May 17, 2010

Recent diarrhoea outbreak not caused by cholera: tests

Tep Nimol

Phnom Penh Post

LABORATORY tests have shown that an outbreak of diarrhoea that affected 252 people and killed two in Kampong Cham last week was not caused by cholera, a provincial health official said Sunday.

Yin Vibol, deputy director of the Chamkar Leu district referral hospital in Kampong Cham, said tests conducted by the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh had shown that cholera was not responsible for last week’s outbreak.

“The institute has informed us that it was just a simple diarrhoea disease and not cholera,” he said. “We have already managed to control the situation of the epidemic, but still more and more people have been infected.”

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