Calls for new methods to contain cholera outbreak

Traders at Muthurwa market in Nairobi sell food items next to flowing sewage. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Cases of cholera continue to rise despite the fact that the disease is easy and simple to control and contain.

Cholera, which is spread through water or food contaminated with cholera bacteria, can spread rapidly in areas with inadequate treatment of sewage and drinking water.