Butere boys high school has been closed following what is suspected to be an outbreak after 100 students affected exhibited similar symptoms.
This has happened just a day after Mukumu girls was closed after three students succumbed to food poisoning which is said to have come from a specific preservative the school was using to store it’s cereals. The poisoning also affected more than 500 other students in the institution.
Over 100 Butere Boys’ High School were on Tuesday, April 4, admitted to various hospitals around Kakamega County.
The students exhibited cholera-like symptoms like vomiting.
The school administration has already called on parents and guardians to take care of the students at various hospitals while others were asked to pick up their children from the school.
Officials from the Ministry of Health and Kakamega County public health however have already established measures to contain further spread of the suspected cholera in the institution as they immediately probe into the matter.
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