- Machogu named Jane Mmbone as the school head.
- The CS made the changes when he toured the school on Saturday.
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Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has transferred Mukumu Girl's Principal Frida Ndolo and named Jane Mmbone as the school head.
The CS has also disbanded the school's board of management following a disease outbreak at the school that has so far left three students and a teacher dead.
The CS made the changes when he toured the school on Saturday to assess the situation.
On Friday, Director General of Health, Patrick Amoth, said the food students consumed was contaminated with human faeces.
"The Ministry wishes to inform the general public that this disease is likely to be a mixture of E. coli and Salmonella typhi which usually occurs if water sources are contaminated with these micro-organisms," he said in a statement.
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacteria commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms that can cause food poisoning.
Salmonella enterica typhi is a gram-negative bacterium that is responsible for typhoid fever.
Amoth said that further laboratory analysis carried out on the grains and pulses returned negative results for aflatoxicosis.
"Laboratory tests for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs) including Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), Leptospirosis and Crimean- Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), Dengue Fever, Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and West Nile Virus have all turned negative," Amoth said.
"The Ministry is conducting further analysis on these samples to ascertain any other potential cause of this illness, and will communicate the finding of these tests."
The Health DG said the disease presents fever, abdominal pain/cramps, vomiting and diarrhoea.
He said comprehensive investigations are currently underway but data analysed so far indicated that the disease seems to have started on March 1, 2023.