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Cholera deaths rise 71 percent worldwide: WHO


The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the 2023 Global Cholera Report.

According to the report released on Wednesday (Sept 4), the number of cholera cases worldwide was 13 percent higher in 2023 than in 2022. Besides, the number of deaths due to cholera has increased by 71 percent. News from Anadolu Agency.

β€œOver 4,000 people died last year from a disease that is preventable and easily treatable,” WHO said in a statement.

45 countries have reported their cholera situation to WHO in 2023. WHO has prepared the report based on those data. The country's cholera patient data shows that 38 percent of those affected are children under five years of age.

Conflict, climate change, inadequate safe water and sanitation, poverty, underdevelopment, displacement and natural disasters contributed to the increase in cholera outbreaks last year, the WHO report said.

The agency also reported that the geographic distribution of cholera has changed significantly from 2022 to 2023. Last year, the rate of cholera infections increased by 125 percent in African countries. During the same period, the prevalence of the disease in the Middle East and Asia decreased by 32 percent.

Last year, cholera spread in epidemic form in 22 countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Somalia, Haiti, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. The WHO report has mentioned that the situation has not improved so far.

There is a vaccine to prevent cholera, but only one company in the world produces that vaccine. As a result, on the one hand, the price of this vaccine is high, and the supply is also insufficient. Therefore, WHO has called on other companies to come forward in this sector to meet the shortage of vaccines.

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