Cholera

Cameroon Minister of Public Health, Manaouda Malachie on Thursday, said Cholera has spread to eight of Cameroon’s 10 regions including the Center region, killing 272 people since October 2021. Manaouda told a press briefing in the…

After years of decline, the planet is now witnessing a "worrying upsurge" in cholera outbreaks, the World Health Organization warned Friday. In the first nine months of this year alone, 26 countries have reported cholera outbreaks, the…

A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people in the fishing village of Londji in south Cameroon, local health authorities said Wednesday. Officials also announced 62 confirmed cases out of 83 suspected ones in the village located about 15…

No fewer than 377,000 people have been vaccinated against cholera in Adamawa, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. This was contained in the World Health Organisation (WHO), Nigeria Health Emergencies Programme report, titled…

Yobe State government on Friday confirmed 906 fresh cases of cholera with 61 deaths and 50 others still on admission in hospitals across the state. Dr Muhammad Kawuwa, the Commissioner for Health, stated this in a statement in Damaturu…

Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has approved 64 million dollars budget for the immediate fight against cholera outbreak that killed at least 30 people in the capital Harare, a cabinet minister said. The funds will also be used…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe on Thursday urged the Harare city council and other local authorities to work on improving sanitation to prevent water-borne diseases. The president spoke as a cholera outbreak in the capital…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has called for urgent and strengthened interventions following more reported cases and deaths from the recent cholera outbreak in Borno. This call was made…

The Borno State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Haruna Mshelia has said that Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) has hit Borno State with 1,068 cases in 10 Local Government Areas of the state, northeast, Nigeria. Out of the reported cases,…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it had launched campaign in Africa for more than two million people in five countries to have access to Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV). The vaccines, funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,…