62-year-old woman dies of cholera on French island Mayotte, increasing the epidemic death toll to two.

62-year-old woman dies of cholera on French island Mayotte, raising the death toll to two. The island experiences an ongoing cholera epidemic with severe diarrhoea, vomiting, and muscle cramps, which spreads under insufficient sanitation conditions. Mayotte reported its first locally acquired cases in late April along with 10 imported cases from neighbouring Comoros, which has been battling a cholera epidemic since the start of the year.