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Jeune Afrique · West Africa · Central African Republic declares cholera outbreak after 24 deaths near Bangui
Reports that Health Minister Pierre Somse declared the outbreak confirmed on June 26 by the Ministry of Health and Population with support from the Institut Pasteur in Bangui, in the Bimbo and Mbaiki health districts. Notes barrier measures already deployed in affected villages and rolled out to surrounding towns, and frames this as the country's fifth recorded epidemic.
“The government declared a new cholera epidemic confirmed June 26, with measures deployed to surrounding towns to prevent its spread.”