Cholera Epidemic

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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'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.

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 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.

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....

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,"...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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'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.

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 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.

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....

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,"...

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