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...
Cholera Deaths Soar Worldwide Despite Being Easily Preventable
WEBSep 11, 2024 — The cholera outbreaks spreading across the globe are becoming more deadly. Deaths from the diarrheal disease soared last year, far outpacing the increase in cases, according to a new analysis by...
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.
Cholera cases soar globally; Malawi, Haiti deadliest ... - UN News
WEBJan 16, 2024 — The world enters 2024 with soaring cases of cholera globally, with over 667,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths last year, UN agencies have reported.
Experts discover the deadly genetics of cholera, which could be …
WEB5 days ago — Credit: Ronald Taylor, Tom Kirn, Louisa Howard/Wikipedia. Experts have used a cutting-edge computational approach to discover the genetic factors that make the bacteria behind cholera so dangerous ...
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...
New analysis confirms world seeing an upsurge of cholera
WEBSep 22, 2023 — Comprehensive cholera statistics for 2022, published by WHO today, shed light on the scale and extent of the ongoing cholera upsurge. While data for cholera remain inadequate, cases reported to WHO in 2022 were more than double those in 2021.
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.
Moving cholera vaccines ahead of the epidemic curve
WEBJan 13, 2024 — An effective two-dose oral regimen of cholera vaccine exists and provides immunity that lasts for approximately 3 years, but a global shortage of vaccine has exacerbated the crisis. 7 These shortages are not necessarily happening solely because of the global surge in cholera cases, but are also due …