At least 51 people have died and hundreds been hospitalized following a major outbreak of cholera in southwestern Nigeria, health officials said on Tuesday. Five people died in the Owan East local government area of Edo state on Sunday and 46 others died in the remote mining village of Kusa, 110 km (68 miles) north of the city of Ibadan where the first case was reported 11 days ago. The deaths come three months after 50 people died in a similar outbreak in Edo. Cases of the deadly disease have been on the increase in the past year in Africa's most populous country, where most people live on less than a dollar a day.
