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The Incidence Of Cholera Among School Children In Benin City
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This research work was designed to examine and analyze the incidence of cholera among children in Benin City. Seven (7) research questions were formulated and questionnaires were administered to one hundred and fifty (150) respondents in order to gather data for the research. Results showed that poor environmental sanitation leads to cholera outbreak, washing of hands before eating help to prevent cholera outbreak, drinking and batting with contaminated water leads to cholera infection and also, poorly kept toilet causes cholera outbreak etc. recommendations included that; government should swing into action by providing various measures in other to prevent cholera disease in the country, our water should be treated properly by adding chlorine before drinking and batting with it.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]The use of GIS is not new in waterborne disease outbreaks and cholera
studies. It has been applied in investigating waterborne disease
outbreak (NWW, 1999), microbial risk assessment of drinking water
reservoirs (Kistemann et al., 2001a), drinking water supply structure
(Kistemann et al., 2001b), and spatial patterns of diarrhoea illness
with regards to water supply structures (Dangendorf et al., 2002). In
cholera studies, GIS technology has been applied in studying the
correlation ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]The use of GIS is not new in waterborne disease outbreaks and cholera
studies. It has been applied in investigating waterborne disease
outbreak (NWW, 1999), microbial risk assessment of drinking water
reservoirs (Kistemann et al., 2001a), drinking water supply structure
(Kistemann et al., 2001b), and spatial patterns of diarrhoea illness
with regards to water supply structures (Dangendorf et al., 2002). In
cholera studies, GIS technology has been applied in studying the
correlation ... Continue reading---
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