Category: Cholera
Nigeria Issues Alert After ‘Highly Contagious’ Cholera Kills 15
Bloomberg Authorities in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos have issued a public health warning after confirming a “highly aggressive and contagious” cholera strain that has killed 15 people in the city. The densely populated southwest city of about 25 million people said it has recorded 350 cases, a week after authorities began investigating a possible […]
Jun 19, 2024
Mozambique faces worst cholera outbreak in more than 20 years
Africa News Health authorities in Mozambique are battling the most severe cholera outbreak in the country in more than 20 years. The number of cases of cholera increased after the country was hit by Cyclone Freddy in late February. The coastal town of Quelimane in northern Mozambique became a cholera hotspot. “Quelimane is a low-lying city. It’s a swamp. So the water tables are very high, so sewage and […]
May 16, 2023
Nigeria: 447 suspected cholera cases reported in 6 states
The Sun The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), has said six states, Cross River (397), Zamfara (25), Ebonyi (11), Abia (9), Bayelsa (3) and Kano (2), reported 447 suspected cholera cases in weeks five to nine of 2023. The NCDC, via its official website, yesterday, however, said 12 states have reported suspected cholera cases […]
Apr 4, 2023
Cholera Returns With a Vengeance
(MedPageToday) OPINION – It has been a bad year for cholera, the fecally transmitted scourge once depicted as a supernatural reaper wielding a giant scythe. When the artwork above, “Le Choléraopens in a new tab or window,” first appeared in 1912, cholera’s pathophysiology was still a mystery, but its clinical wrath wasn’t. By then, it […]
Dec 27, 2022
We’ve run out of cholera vaccines, WHO official says as disease surges
(Reuters) The global stockpile of cholera vaccines the World Health Organization helps manage is “currently empty or extremely low”, a WHO official said on Friday amid a resurgence of the disease around the world. The U.N. health agency says global fatality rates are rising and there are around 30 countries around the world that have […]
Dec 16, 2022
Gang Warfare Cripples Haiti’s Fight Against Cholera
(New York Times) The disease is spreading in the Caribbean nation in part because armed groups control poor neighborhoods with ruthless violence and prevent doctors from providing basic care. To reach the hospital, the mothers traveled the front lines of a gang war, bringing sick babies during lulls in gun battles and passing corpses along […]
Nov 21, 2022
Haiti’s cholera death toll rises to 136 as outbreak gets ‘worse and worse every day’
(CNN) A deadly resurgence of cholera in Haiti has claimed 136 lives so far, according to the Caribbean nation’s health ministry. Eighty-nine of the people who were infected died in a hospital or in cholera treatment centers, while 47 of them died at home, according to the Haitian Health Ministry’s statement. The Haitian government is working with […]
Nov 10, 2022
UN agencies scale up response to Haiti cholera outbreak
(Xinhua) The United Nations and partners are scaling up aid to Haiti, which has been hit with a spreading cholera outbreak, a UN spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, continues to support Haiti’s Ministry of Health in epidemiological surveillance, said […]
Nov 8, 2022
Cholera Outbreaks Surge Worldwide as Vaccine Supply Drains
(New York Times) A record number of outbreaks have been reported after droughts, floods and wars have forced large numbers of people to live in unsanitary conditions. Outbreaks have been reported in the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, putting the health of millions at risk and overwhelming fragile health systems. Untreated, the […]
Nov 1, 2022
(ReliefWeb) With the spread of cholera exacerbating the ongoing security, humanitarian, economic, and political crisis faced by Haiti, the Security Council must act — “and decisively so” — in response to its Government’s request for support to its institutions to restore order, and to save thousands of lives that will otherwise be lost, the United […]
Oct 18, 2022