As announced today by the Ministry of Health of the African country, the outbreak of a cholera epidemic has killed more than 200 people in northern Cameroon in the last two months,
According to Rebecca Ntzao, a health official in the northern part of Cameroon, over 1,500 people were challenged by the cholera bacterium, which was incubated in water.
Cholera infects humans by drinking contaminated water or eating contaminated feed.

The mortality rate of the disease ranges from 1 to 60%, depending on access to treatment.

According to Minister of Public Works Andre Mom tassels, Just one in twenty citizens of Cameroon have access to toilet and less than a third of the population has access to safe water for drinking from a total of 22 million people in the country.
Over 4,000 people died when a cholera epidemic hit the country in 2010.