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WHO warns of rising deaths in cholera outbreaks

Death rates from cholera outbreaks in the world now affect 22 countries | Fountain: AFP

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The death rate from global cholera outbreaks, which currently affects 22 countries, has increased to 2% in 2021, and that percentage is expected to continue into 2022 and continue into 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned today.

In the last week alone, new outbreaks have been reported in three more countries, said the head of the cholera control department. WHOPhilippe Barbosa, who reiterated the risks associated with this increase in morbidity disease suggests for general well-being.

“In 2022, 50% more countries reported shoots compared to previous exercises, including those that were free from disease years,” the expert said.

Barbosa reiterated that the advance of this threat threatens approximately one billion people in the world. diseaseand warned that supplies vaccine remains low, with about 37 million doses available by 2023.

This means that in many countries vaccination campaigns were forced to replace the two doses recommended in areas at risk of outbreaks with one.

Due to the progression of this disease WHO This year, for the first time, he asked donor countries and organizations for a special fund of $25 million to fight him.

Some of buds It was announced in areas affected by violence and conflict, such as Haiti or Syria.

Threaten a billion people

Growing global cholera outbreaks, which killed more people in 2022 than in the previous five years combined, put more than a billion people on the planet at direct risk of infection, the CEO warned World Health Organization (WHO).

At his weekly press conference, the first in three years, he did not mention COVID-19 In his initial speech, CEO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that 23 countries around the world are currently suffering from outbreaks (Haiti is one of the hardest hit).

Tedros gave an example Syriawhere 85,000 cases disease This makes the situation even more difficult in a country that has also been hit by a more than a decade of civil war and this week by a severe earthquake in its north.

The Director General recalled that anger It is transmitted, in particular, through contaminated water, so the supply of clean drinking water is urgent when outbreaks are detected.

EFE


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