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The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation."Our ...
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Health officials in Sudan have launched a 10-day cholera vaccination campaign in the capital, Khartoum, to curb what ...
Cholera is typically treated by replenishing the body's fluids, salts, sugars and minerals that are lost through diarrhoea. Rehydration solutions and plenty of fluids are usually the go-to treatment.
A drug-resistant cholera strain has spread to multiple countries. It resists ten antibiotics, including two key treatments. The strain originated in Y ...
Abuja, Nigeria — Cholera is surging in Nigeria, health officials said this week, with the number of cases and deaths increasing by more than 200% this year.
The number of cholera deaths reported last year worldwide ballooned from the previous year by 71% to more than 4,000, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom ...
As the schools resume from the mid-term break and the Sallah holiday on Wednesday, there are fears the pupils may be at risk of contracting cholera, a food and water-borne disease caused by the ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund has stated that children under the age of five are particularly vulnerable to severe dehydration and higher mortality rates during cholera outbreaks. A ...
Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are at the epicenter of the deadliest cholera outbreak in southern Africa in at least a decade. The stockpile of vaccines to limit the disease's spread has run dry.
An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen.