Cholera

A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Thursday in Bauchi called on all stakeholders to join in the fight to end the spread of cholera and also of the COVID-19.Bauchi State chairman of the coalition, Malam…

Kenya’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday that 13 people have died due to cholera following heavy rains pounding several parts of the nation.Mutahi Kagwe, Cabinet Secretary for Health, said that medical personnel are working round…

The Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Emergency Working Group has distributed water purification materials to four local government areas affected by cholera in Ebonyi. SEE ALSO:National Housing Programme: Impact and challenges in…

World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said the number of cholera cases decreased globally by 60 per cent in 2018.The organisation disclosed this in a statement issued from its headquarters in Geneva entitled:…

The number of people killed by an outbreak of cholera in the North and Far North regions of Cameroun has risen from two in April to 48, officials of the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said.Arabo Saidou, an official of the…

The first oral cholera vaccination campaign has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other global agencies, in Yemen, with plans to reach millions of people in the war-torn country.There have been over 2,200 deaths…

The Cholera epidemic in Yemen, which has afflicted over one million people according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, ranks among the world’s worst of the past decade.The World Health Organization warned in November that…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it will immunize 300,000 people against cholera in Borno.This is contained in the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), Humanitarian Situation Report for the…

Mr Baba Galadima, Deputy Director, WASH Response and Collaboration, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, has raised an alarm over impending outbreak of cholera in Sasa Community, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo state.Galadima, in…

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Tuesday that over 500 people had died so far in the cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Cholera is an acute enteric infection caused by the ingestion of bacterium Vibro…