Cholera, Chikungunya Outbreaks Strain Kenya's Medical Services

In what Doctors Without Borders is calling a first, simultaneous outbreaks of cholera and chikungunya are straining local health services in northeastern Kenya. In Kenya’s Mandera County, 12 deaths from cholera have been reported since April, in an outbreak that has been ongoing for about 17 months, according to Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF. Almost 800 cases have been reported during this period, concentrated in Mandera township. “It is rather devastating...

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