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Jab to beat diarrhoeal diseases

A medical officer cleans his hands after attending to Cholera patients in Mandera County. PHOTO: COURTESY

NAIROBI: Unpredictable weather patterns caused by climate change, which have resulted in the current rainfalls and floods, have also led to an increase of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

Since December 2014 when a cholera outbreak was reported in Nairobi County, there have been reported outbreaks across 30 of the country’s 47 counties.

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