Uganda: Cholera kills 10, hundreds infected

Cholera outbreaks in Uganda have killed at least 10 people, while hundreds of others have been treated for the disease, health officials said last Thursday. The outbreaks were recorded in a congested Kampala slum; in Jonam County in Nebbi District, 300 km northwest of the city; and in a camp for internally displaced people in Gulu District, 380 km north of Kampala. In the slum, north of the city centre, four deaths and four cases of infections have been recorded. The slum is home to an estimated 30,000 people.