{"id":6882,"date":"2024-06-19T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2024-06-19T08:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:14:28","slug":"nigeria-issues-alert-after-highly-contagious-cholera-kills-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/19\/nigeria-issues-alert-after-highly-contagious-cholera-kills-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Issues Alert After \u2018Highly Contagious\u2019 Cholera Kills 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-06-18\/nigeria-issues-alert-after-highly-contagious-cholera-kills-15?re_source=postr_story_0\">Bloomberg<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities in Nigeria\u2019s commercial capital of Lagos have issued a public health warning after confirming a \u201chighly aggressive and contagious\u201d cholera strain that has killed 15 people in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The densely populated southwest city of about 25 million people said it has recorded 350 cases, a week after authorities began investigating a possible water contamination source in the affluent Lekki &#8211; Victoria Island neighborhood. At least 30 other regions in Africa\u2019s most populous nation have reported cases, bringing the total to 882 as at June 2, according to data on the website of the national disease agency. \u201cThe identified strain is highly aggressive and contagious, with potential for widespread dissemination,\u201d Akin Abayomi, Lagos state health commissioner said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ProfAkinAbayomi\/status\/1802228902003146765?t=66uZdwMl6wfQcehbf365cg&amp;s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>\u00a0on X. \u201cThrough community-based case finding and contact tracing, we have observed that the number of cases has peaked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Authorities in Nigeria\u2019s commercial capital of Lagos have issued a public health warning after confirming a \u201chighly aggressive and contagious\u201d cholera strain that has killed 15 people in the city. The densely populated southwest city of about 25 million people said it has recorded 350 cases, a week after authorities began investigating a possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cholera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}