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25 students rushed to hospital over cholera scare in Nakuru where the disease has killed 15 people

Students from Mama Ngina Kenyatta Secondary school in Rongai Nakuru County wait for treatment outside Langalanga dispensary in Nakuru after they were rushed to the hospital with chlorella symptoms.[PHOTO: BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]

NAKURU: 25 students from Mama Ngina Secondary School in Rongai Sub County, Nakuru were rushed to Langa Langa cholera treatment centre after they complained of severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea.

However, doctors at the facility who carried rapid laboratory tests confirmed the students had suffered food poisoning and not cholera.

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