#cholera

#cholera

Deadly cholera outbreaks are occurring in multiple countries in central and southern Africa.

This is the deadliest regional outbreak in Africa in at least a decade, infecting over 220,000 people and causing over 4,000 deaths. [ more ]

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 ]