25 students rushed to hospital over cholera scare

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 suspected symptoms only to be found it was food poisoning, over twenty students were rushed in [PHOTO:BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]

Some 25 students from Mama Ngina Secondary School in Rongai Sub-county were rushed to Langalanga cholera treatment centre after they complained of severe abdominal pain and diarrhea.

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