The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention attributes the worst cholera outbreak in three years to climate change.
Cholera outbreaks have swept across more than a dozen African countries, causing hundreds of deaths and stressing already fragile health systems.
Shortages of cholera vaccines are hampering efforts to contain the disease, with Africa needing as many as 80 million doses but only having access to 15 to 18 million doses globally. [ more ]