Laikipia health services have dismissed claims that there is an outbreak of Cholera in the British Army Training Unit (BATUK) camp in Nanyuki.
Laikipia Chief Executive Committee (CEC) in charge health Albert Taiti, speaking to the press on Friday in Nanyuki, said that the information circulating in the social media and reported by a section of mainstream media were false.
He said that they had confirmed with the Medical and Surveillance Teams at the camp that there is no case of cholera or any other disease of Public Health concern at the camp.
He urged residents to continue observing healthy habits for prevention and protection from diseases and other infections and at the same time revealed that cholera is not transmitted from monkeys to humans.
Reports going round in the social media alleged that the outbreak of cholera in the army unit was a parasite sub-tribe linked to a farmed monkey in China.
According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cholera is an acute diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with Vibrio cholerae bacteria.
Infections can occur if one swallows food or water contaminated with cholera bacteria.
