Cholera
The latest news and comment on cholera
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Fair AccessCholera now threatens 1bn people. It’s time to finish what we began in the 19th centuryHakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusWith the disease raging in 23 countries and no vaccine stocks, Zambia and the WHO propose a way to stop the deaths
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Ten months of armed conflict in the country has displaced nearly 11 million people and left half the population facing hunger
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Resurgence classified as grade 3 emergency by WHO, with southern Africa and Haiti among those hardest hit
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It’s not just bullets and bombs. I have never seen health organisations as worried as they are about disease in Gaza
Devi SridharA quarter of its Gaza’s population could die within a year due to outbreaks caused by this unprecedented conflict, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
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From 2020: Cholera has largely been beaten in the west, but it still kills tens of thousands of people in poorer countries every year. As we search for a cure for coronavirus, we have to make sure it will be available to everyone, not just to those in wealthy nationsPodcast
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The age of extinctionClimate action must respond to extreme weather driving health crisis, says WHOMelting ice caps and rising sea levels are urgent but people care more about the floods, wildfires and droughts that are here now, New York summit hears
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‘Exponential’ gang violence and government failure add to woes of country that has no chance to rebuild after last month’s magnitude 5.5 quake
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Successful vaccination campaign has been severely disrupted by the devastation in February that caused widespread damage to water supply and transport links
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The disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health system
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Campaign to stem the spread of the disease takes place against a backdrop of political chaos, gang violence and fuel shortages
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Health officials halve dose to eke out ‘extremely limited’ supply amid unprecedented rise in outbreaks
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Residents of Pir Koh say poor water provision and a dirty water tank led to 26 deaths, the majority among children under seven
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With hunger across Horn of Africa and 600,000 children out of school, ‘desperate’ parents push more girls into early marriage
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Death toll rises as storms continue to rip through communities, destroying homes and livelihoods
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Racked by war, cholera and now coronavirus, the country faces the world’s worst famine in decades
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Just like the Black Death, influenza and smallpox, Covid-19 will affect almost every aspect of our of lives – even after a vaccine turns up