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Bookmark or Share- Cholera - World Health Organization (WHO)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.
- WHO announces global resurgence of cholera cases in 2024The 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...
- Cholera - WikipediaRecent major outbreaks are the 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak and the 2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak. In October 2016, an outbreak of cholera began in war-ravaged Yemen. [87] WHO called it "the worst cholera outbreak in the world". [88] In 2019, 93% of the reported 923,037 cholera cases were from Yemen (with 1911 deaths reported). [89]
- Global cholera surge likely accelerated by climate change ...Climate change has driven an “unprecedented” number of larger and more deadly cholera outbreaks around the world this year, the UN health agency, WHO, said on Friday. “The map is under threat...
- Cholera – Global situation - World Health Organization (WHO)In 2021, 23 countries reported cholera outbreaks, mainly in the WHO Regions of Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. This trend continued into 2022 as 30 countries across five of the six WHO regions reported cholera cases or outbreaks.
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