Nov. 14 (UPI) -- There have been 1,110 documented cholera deaths in 2018, more than 13 times higher than cholera deaths in the same time period in 2017, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control said Wednesday.
The NCDC's weekly epidemiological report said there were 48,686 suspected cholera cases, 829 laboratory confirmed and 1,110 deaths across 29 states in the first 43 weeks of the year. During the same time period in 2017, there were 3,642 suspected cases and 84 deaths across 19 states.