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Why Kenya could be Cholera endemic by 2020

Cholera risk in the area, however, remains because of the county’s open defecation rate is 18.8 per cent.

At the end of a small garden in Mark Kisang’s homestead in Elgeyo Marakwet stands a mound of sandy soil. It is the only reminder that his son Kiprono, who died of cholera aged five, ever existed.

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