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Kenya must now do what London did 150 years ago to keep deadly disease at bay

The current cholera outbreaks in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and other towns are akin to those that happened in London and other towns in England; only that the latter happened over 150 years ago.

Yet the solution to cholera outbreaks in Kenya, like in London at the time, lies not with the public health practitioners, but with water and sewerage engineers in the urban areas.

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