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BURKINA FASO - CHOLERA EPIDEMIC

64 images Created 19 Dec 2008

Photo feature story on the cholera epidemic that swept across Burkina Faso and West Africa in 2005;
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  • A man urinates in an open sewage gutter by the road side. Symbolic of a public health and hygeine problem in Ouagadougou where habits like this are part of the problem that led to the widespread cholera epidemic in Burkina Faso.
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  • A man urinates in an open sewage gutter by the road side. Symbolic of a public health and hygeine problem in Ouagadougou where habits like this are part of the problem that led to the widespread cholera epidemic in Burkina Faso.
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  • Dr. Suleymane Sanou, Directeur de la lutte contre la maladie - DLM (Director of the Disease Control Centre)
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  • Dr. Suleymane Sanou, Directeur de la lutte contre la maladie - DLM (Director of the Disease Control Centre)
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  • Dr. Suleymane Sanou, Directeur de la lutte contre la maladie - DLM (Director of the Disease Control Centre)
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  • Mothers wait with their children to be seen by a Doctor in the emergency ward waiting room at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; handwritten public information signs are posted on the walls warning people of the methods of transmission of cholera.
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  • Mothers wait with their children to be seen by a Doctor in the emergency ward waiting room at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; handwritten public information signs are posted on the walls warning people of the methods of transmission of cholera.
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  • Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, August 31st 2005..Doctors surgery, emrgency department at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.; A nurse prepares a syringe to take a blood sample from a patient.
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  • Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, August 31st 2005..Doctors surgery, emrgency department at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.; A nurse prepares a syringe to take a blood sample from a patient.
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  • Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, August 31st 2005..Doctors surgery, emrgency department at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.; A nurse prepares a syringe to take a blood sample from a patient.
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  • Doctors surgery, emergency department at the Sector 30 Ougadougou Medical Centre; A couple with their children bring their son to see the Doctor ~ they fear he has caught Cholera, a fact which is subsequently confirmed and the boy is hospitalized.
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  • Doctors surgery, emergency department at the Sector 30 Ougadougou Medical Centre; A couple with their children bring their son to see the Doctor ~ they fear he has caught Cholera, a fact which is subsequently confirmed and the boy is hospitalized.
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  • Doctors surgery, emergency department at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; A nurse takes a blood sample from a patient.
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  • Doctors surgery, emergency department at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; A nurse takes a blood sample from a patient.
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  • Mothers wait with their children to be seen by a Doctor in the emergency ward waiting room at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; handwritten public information signs are posted on the walls warning people of the methods of transmission of cholera.
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  • Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • Footwear disinfection trays to prevent the transmission of the disease from the quarantine area; Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • A nurse in the Cholera quarantined ward examines the admissions list at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • A father carries his sick son into the Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; The boy will be put on a saline drip, given a coctail of 4 different medications and closely observed for 24hours.
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  • A father carries his sick son into the Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; The boy will be put on a saline drip, given a coctail of 4 different medications and closely observed for 24hours.
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  • A father carries his sick son into the Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; The boy will be put on a saline drip, given a coctail of 4 different medications and closely observed for 24hours.
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  • A father carries his sick son into the Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; The boy will be put on a saline drip, given a coctail of 4 different medications and closely observed for 24hours.
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  • A father carries his sick son into the Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; The boy will be put on a saline drip, given a coctail of 4 different medications and closely observed for 24hours.
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  • A father carries his sick son into the Quarantined Cholera ward at the Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre; A Doctor and Infirmier Djibo (Chargé de la surveillance épidemiologique)  examine the notes made by the ER doctor; The boy will be put on a saline drip, given a coctail of 4 different medications and closely observed for the next 24hours.
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  • A cholera patient on a saline IV drip in the quarantined cholera ward of Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • A cholera patient on a saline IV drip in the quarantined cholera ward of Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • Infirmier Djibo makes his rounds of Cholera patients in the quarantined cholera ward of Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • A young cholera patient on a saline IV drip in the quarantined cholera ward of Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • A young cholera patient in the quarantined cholera ward of Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre on a saline IV drip vomits into a small bowl.
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  • Infirmier Tidiane Cheick Djibo ~ chargé de la surveillance épidémiologique au Centre Medical du Secteur 30 de Ouagadougou.
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  • A guardian and janitor at the cholera quarantine ward of Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre. His duties include guarding the quarantined ward, escorting the patients to use the correct toilet facilities and then disinfecting the toilets.
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  • Dr. Sylvain Zabsonre makes his rounds of the cholera patients...Cholera Quarantine ward, Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • Dr. Sylvain Zabsonre makes his rounds of the cholera patients...Cholera Quarantine ward, Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • Dr. Sylvain Zabsonre, Cholera Quarantine ward, Sector 30 Ouagadougou Medical Centre.
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  • Concentrate disinfectant provided by WHO.. As soon as a cholera patient is admitted, a disinfection team will visit the patients home and carry out a complete cleansing and disinfection of the abode.
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  • Disinfection team and WHO observers at the home of a cholera victim.. the patients mother explains to the team the boys movements before he became ill so that they know where disinfection needs to be carried out.
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  • Disinfection tecnician Kouka Joseph Wangré sprays potentially infected rooms with a powerful disinfectant to eliminate the spread of the contagion.
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  • Disinfection tecnician Kouka Joseph Wangré sprays potentially infected rooms with a powerful disinfectant to eliminate the spread of the contagion.
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  • Disinfection tecnician Kouka Joseph Wangré sprays potentially infected rooms with a powerful disinfectant to eliminate the spread of the contagion.
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  • Disinfection tecnician Kouka Joseph Wangré sprays potentially infected rooms with a powerful disinfectant to eliminate the spread of the contagion.
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  • The mother and scared siblings of the cholera sick child look on at the disinfection crew.
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  • The mother and scared siblings of the cholera sick child look on at the disinfection crew.
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  • The mother and scared siblings of the cholera sick child look on at the disinfection crew.
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  • Infirmier Djibo (Chargé de la surveillance épidémiologique au Centre Medical du Secteur 30 de Ouagadougou) gives the mother of the cholera sick child some precautionary medication for the other children and explains how it should be taken.
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  • Infirmier Djibo (Chargé de la surveillance épidémiologique au Centre Medical du Secteur 30 de Ouagadougou) gives the mother of the cholera sick child some precautionary medication for the other children and explains how it should be taken.
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  • Stagnant water by a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Stagnant water by a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • A food stall by an open sewage gutter in shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • A food stall by an open sewage gutter in shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • A food stall by an open sewage gutter in shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • A food stall by an open sewage gutter in shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • A food stall by an open sewage gutter in shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • A food stall by an open sewage gutter in shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Fly covered meat at a meat market in a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Fly covered meat at a meat market in a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Fly covered meat at a meat market in a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Fly covered meat at a meat market in a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Children play in and around stagnant water by a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Children play in and around stagnant water by a shanty suburb of Ouagadougou.
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  • Children pan for sand in the main Ouagadougou sewerage canal..they sell the sand they sieve from the water to people for use in building homes.
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  • Women pan for sand in the main Ouagadougou sewerage canal..they sell the sand they sieve from the water to people for use in building homes.
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  • Women pan for sand in the main Ouagadougou sewerage canal..they sell the sand they sieve from the water to people for use in building homes.
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