Cholera

Cholera outbreak death toll rises to 24

The National Department of Health has called on the public to report to healthcare facilities immediately, should they display signs and symptoms of cholera. This as the death has risen to 24. Two more people have died in the Hammanskraal area, north of Pretoria, where there is currently a cholera outbreak.[…]

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Armed gangs ‘terrorising’ Haiti as cholera spreads: UN official

INTERNATIONAL Armed gangs are “terrorising” residents in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, a United Nations official has warned, as deadly violence and instability continue to complicate the country’s response to a worsening outbreak of cholera. Ulrika Richardson, the UN’s resident and humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, told reporters on Wednesday that 195[…]

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Yemenis die as UAE and Saudi withhold aid funds: UN

United Nations – Yemenis are dying from cholera, hunger and other ills because Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are not making good on funding pledges they made earlier this year, a top United Nations official warned on Thursday. Mark Lowcock, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator and under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the UN[…]

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