Senegal: Cholera breaks out in Dakar for first time in eight years

Cholera has broken out in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, for the first time in eight years, government doctors said on Tuesday. Doctor Bassirou Johnson, an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health, told IRIN that 66 cases of the highly infectious water-borne disease had been reported in slum areas of the city since 11 October, but there had so far been no deaths.