Cholera outbreaks and pandemics
CARE Chief Says Yemen Situation A ‘shame On Humanity’
The head of anti-poverty NGO CARE International on Saturday denounced the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen, which...
GHA Cautioned Against Cholera Outbreak
Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA) has urged the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to immediately roll out preparedness...
UN Urges Aid To Avert Cholera-Induced Famine In Yemen
International donors must step up to prevent a cholera epidemic in war-torn Yemen from producing full-blown famine...
Yemen Cholera Outbreak Tops 300,000 Suspected Cases
A cholera outbreak in Yemen has now surpassed 300,000 suspected cases, the Red Cross said Monday as the war-torn...
Kenya Cholera Outbreak Hits Dozens At Health Conference
Nearly 50 people have contracted cholera while attending a health conference in Kenya’s capital. The infected...
Cholera Kills 315 In Yemen In Less Than Month
Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid...
Nearly 23,500 Cholera Cases, 242 Deaths In Yemen In Three Weeks
A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen has killed 242 people, and left nearly 23,500 others sick in the past three...
El Nino Can Warn On Cholera Outbreaks In Africa
El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa,...
UN Chief Apologises For First Time Over Outbreak
Haiti was cholera-free until it was brought to the country by Nepalese peacekeepers in 2010 UN Secretary General Ban...
Cape Coast Cholera Outbreak Toll Increases To 400
Health authorities in the Cape Coast are still battling with cholera cases even as they attempt to ban food vending on...
Hospitals In Ghana On High Alert Amid Cholera Outbreak In Cape Coast
The Ministry of Health has directed all districts and regional hospitals across the country to be on high alert and set...
157 Cases Recorded
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that 157 cholera cases have been reported in the Central regional capital, Cape...
Cholera Outbreak Declared In Cape Coast; 36 Cases Confirmed
Health authorities have declared cholera outbreak in the Cape Coast metropolis in the Central Region as scores of...
South Sudan: MSF Reduces Cholera Activities after Treating 3,300 Cases
(South Sudan,Médecins Sans Frontières) A significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in...
#NoChobo, The Give Free Hand Sanitizing Initiative Against Cholera and Ebola In Ghana.
There are those who talk and those who act. Some have decided to be action figures to fight against the current cholera...
The Cholera Outbreak in Accra Is Far from Over, More Than 300 Cholera Cases Are Recorded Each Day in Greater Accra Region Alone
Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service has indicated that the fast killing cholera is far from...
The Situation is Dire – Cholera Claims Two More Lives in the Volta Region
Two people have died and 53 are currently on admission at various hospitals in the Ketu South Municipality in the Volta...
Here’s How Many People Have Died From Cholera So Far
Cholera has killed at least 67 people in Ghana since June and infected more than 5,000 others in an outbreak that...
Over 3,000 Cholera Cases Recorded in Accra Alone since July
More than 3,000 cholera cases have so far been recorded in the Greater Accra region alone since July. Sixteen deaths...