WHO announces global resurgence of cholera cases in 2024 - UN News
WEBJun 20, 2024 · The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a spike in cholera in several regions of the world, with almost 195,000 cases and over 1,900 deaths reported in 24 countries since the start...
WHO reports 71 per cent rise in cholera deaths last year | UN News
WEBSep 4, 2024 · The number of deaths caused by cholera is on the rise, according to global cholera statistics for 2023 published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. Over 4000 people died from...
Cholera Deaths Soar Worldwide Despite Being Easily Preventable
WEBSep 11, 2024 · More than 4,000 people were officially reported to have died from cholera in 2023, but the true number is probably far higher, Dr. Barboza said. The W.H.O.’s efforts to model the actual number ...
Cholera – Global situation - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBNov 30, 2022 · Despite being easily treatable with rehydration solution, cholera remains a global threat due to its high morbidity and mortality in vulnerable populations with a lack of access to adequate health care. Seven distinct pandemics of cholera have been recorded during the past two centuries.
Cholera – Global situation - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBSince mid-2021, the world is facing an acute upsurge of the 7 th cholera pandemic characterized by the number, size and concurrence of multiple outbreaks, the spread to areas free of cholera for decades and alarming high mortality rates.
One billion people in 43 countries face cholera risk, amid ... - UN News
WEBMay 19, 2023 · The UN health agency estimates that one billion people in 43 countries are at risk of cholera with children under five particularly vulnerable. Cholera’s extraordinarily high mortality ratio is...
Cholera - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated. Cholera is a disease of poverty affecting people with inadequate access to safe water and basic sanitation. Conflict, unplanned urbanization and climate change all increase the risk of cholera.
Global Stockpile of Cholera Vaccine Is Gone as Outbreaks Spread
WEBApr 11, 2024 · Doses of cholera vaccine are being given to patients as fast as they are produced and the global stockpile has run completely dry, as deadly outbreaks of the disease continue to spread.
Ongoing cholera pandemic shows need to go back to basics for ... - CNN
WEBJun 1, 2023 · Bringing clean water to the world wouldn’t just stop cholera, it would also finally end polio, improve child survival and increase productivity by reducing illness in workers.
Cholera Outbreaks Surge Worldwide as Vaccine Supply Drains
WEBPublished Oct. 31, 2022 Updated Nov. 1, 2022. A record number of cholera outbreaks around the globe, driven by droughts, floods and armed conflicts, has sickened hundreds of thousands of people...