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 "So far 12 people have died from the disease and there are many more
cases", said Ezra Sakawa, medical director of the general hospital
for Mubi, the town where the disease has struck.
"We have little manpower to deal with an outbreak of such
magnitude," Sakawa said, adding that nurses were on strike.
Northeast Nigeria is ground zero for Nigeria's nine-year war against
Islamist insurgency Boko Haram and its offshoot, now Islamic State's
West Africa ally.
The conflict has spawned one of the world's largest humanitarian
crises, with millions of people displaced and in need of aid to
survive.
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Those conditions are ripe for any outbreak of disease, such as
cholera, to be deadly on a wide scale, humanitarian workers say.
Mubi, although less affected by the humanitarian crisis, has been
attacked repeatedly by suspected Boko Haram militants, killing
scores of people.
(Reporting by Emmanuel Ande and Percy Dabang in Yola and Ardo Hazzad
in Bauchi; Writing by Paul Carsten; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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