Cholera Epidemic

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  Risks Of Epidemics Rise In Kerala As Flood Water Recedes

  Health experts say as the flood water recedes, Kerala may have to cope with waterborne and vectorborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, malaria, hepatitis and other fevers.

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  In World's Worst Cholera Outbreak, Vaccine Talks Hang In The Balance

  A cholera epidemic in Yemen, one of the worst ever recorded, is likely to surge again around March, giving global health experts a few months to get vaccines in to the war-torn country to try to limit the next wave of cases.

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  Cholera Cases In Yemen Could Hit 850,000 This Year, Warns Red Cross

  The cholera epidemic tearing through Yemen, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation in the war-ravaged country, could impact 850,000 people by the end of the year, the Red Cross warned Wednesday.

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  34 Dead Of Suspected Cholera As Outbreak Spreads In Yemen

  At least 570 suspected cases of cholera have surfaced in war-torn Yemen in the past three weeks, sparking fears of a potential epidemic, Doctors Without Borders said.

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  Cholera Hits 3,000 Burundi Refugees in Tanzania: UN

  About 3,000 refugees fleeing political turmoil in Burundi have been infected in a cholera epidemic in neighbouring Tanzania, the United Nations said on Friday, stoking fears of a growing humanitarian crisis in Africa's Great Lakes.

• Five Years After Quake, Cholera Epidemic Haunts Haiti

  Five years after an earthquake demolished its capital, Haiti's efforts to get back on its feet are still hampered by an epidemic blamed on the UN troops there to help.

• Haiti Cholera Outbreak Kills 132 in 2014

  Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said on Wednesday.

• UN Chief Makes 'Pilgrimage' to Haiti to Address Cholera Crisis

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Haiti on Monday for what he called a "necessary pilgrimage" to promote efforts to alleviate a cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and has been linked to the U.N.'s own peacekeepers.

• Lawyers Say UN Chief Served With Haiti Lawsuit in New York

  Lawyers for more than 1,500 victims of Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic said they had served UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a personal summons to appear in US court.

• Haiti Cholera epidemic averted?

  As doctors in Haiti wait to see if a major cholera epidemic has been averted, aid workers in Port-au-Prince were working on Friday to prepare for the eventuality that it hasn't.As of Friday morning, more than 4,700 people had been hospitalised and at least 330 people had died, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs....

• Cholera epidemic hits Orissa, 63 dead

  The cholera epidemic has hit Orissa. More than 63 people have died in Rayagada district since August. However, the Government response to the epidemic is still lackadaisical.''All these cases have happened in highly inaccessible interior pockets. It's difficult to respond quickly because of the terrain. But still our teams have touched every area,"...

• Cholera surfaces in flood-ravaged Pakistan

  UN health workers fear an outbreak of cholera among millions of Pakistanis made homeless by monsoon floods which have swamped the country.