1,500 infected in cholera outbreak in northeast Afghanistan

1,500 infected in cholera outbreak in northeast Afghanistan

A cholera outbreak at a village in northeast Afghanistan has infected 1,492 people, killed a young woman and left another 100 in critical condition, local officials said Tuesday. The outbreak began three days ago and was restricted to one town that has been quarantined, Abdul Marouf Rasekh, a spokesman for the governor of Badakhshan province said. Thirty-six of the most serious cases have been taken to a hospital in the provincial capital of Faizabad. The source of the infection has been traced to a freshwater spring in the town of Chappa in the Darayen district.