Chad: Cholera outbreak confirmed but under control - WHO

An outbreak of cholera killed 11 people in southern Chad earlier this month, but the outbreak has been brought under control following repairs to the water supply system in the town of Moundou, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said last Thursday. Dr Abdoulaye Yam, the leader of a WHO team which investigated an outbreak of acute diarrhoea in Moundou, an industrial town 600 km south of the capital N'Djamena, said the disease had been confirmed as cholera.