Fears PNG cholera outbreak is spreading
AAP A cholera outbreak on Papua New Guinea’s side of Torres Strait has been contained, but health officials fear the deadly bacteria is spreading inland. PNG department of health officials say 30 villagers have died from cholera on Daru, a tiny remote island off the coast of PNG’s Western Province that is close to Australia’s Cape York. More than 800 Daru people have been diagnosed with cholera. The disease spread to the island from an outbreak that was first recorded in September last year on PNG’s northeast coast. Advertisement: Story continues below <iframe id="dcAd-1-4" src="http://ad-apac.doubleclick.net/adi/onl.smh.news/world;ctype=article;cat=world;pos=3;sz=300x250;tile=4;ord=2.9406761E7?" width='300' height='250' scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" allowtransp