Hundreds hospitalised in Yangon cholera outbreak

A total of 500 people have been hospitalised for severe diarrhoea in Myanmar’s largest city, with nearly 150 testing positive for cholera.



Myanmar’s infrastructure and health sector are creaking after more than five years of civil war and with the economy sinking.



Since Aug 9, 500 people have been hospitalised for diarrhoea, the key symptom of cholera, according to the regional social affairs minister



The comments were the first official confirmation that cholera was involved, more than a week after the first hospital admissions.



Rapid tests for cholera had shown 149 positive cases, which includes the country’s largest city..