Man tests positive for cholera in Navsari

Meanwhile,27 residents of Navsari’s Mithali Nagar extension area were hospitalised with diarrheal symptoms today,taking the number of suspected cases to 132.

At Dhanera,14 new cases were reported and six were hospitalised with diarrheal symptoms today.

Over 270 people have been hospitalised since the last week of June in Dhanera and five deaths have occured due to the outbreak.

According to epidemiology experts from the state’s Health and Family Welfare Department,the vibrio cholerae bacteria (which causes an infection in the small intestine leading to severe diarrhea) may have spread through piped water that had got contaminated while passing through gutters.

Cholera-hit Dhanera is also suffering from a water shortage,with the water supply being stopped from the depleted Sipu dam. The residents are now being supplied water through tankers.