(SomaliNet) Watery diarrhea disease caused the deaths of ten people including children and elderly in the Somali inhabited settlements in the Kenyan northeastern provincial town of Mandhera near the Somali town of Baled Hawo. | Local doctors warned if this disease was cholera it could spread into Somalia. |
Local doctors warned if this disease was cholera it could spread into Somalia where floods and repeated wars have already had bad impacts on the livelihood of the pastoral community in southern Somalia. Doctors in Mandhere were endeavoring to treat the sick, urging people to clean their environment and keep the sanitation of their houses. Health warnings were also given by medical people in southern Somalia.