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Moreover, Haiti’s Ministry of Health and the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization are beginning the second phase of a UN-financed vaccination initiative that is targeting 600,000 people in areas where cholera persists; 200,000 people are set to be vaccinated in the next couple of months, with another 300,000 to follow by the end of this year.
During the first few months of this year, the number of cholera cases and deaths declined by some 75% compared to the same period of 2013, reaching the lowest level since the outbreak began.
To be sure, Haiti still hosts the largest number of suspected cholera cases in the Western hemisphere – unacceptable in a world of such vast knowledge and wealth.
Just as cholera has been eliminated from other difficult environments worldwide, it can be eliminated from Haiti.
The Haitian people possess all of the compassion and determination needed to overcome the cholera epidemic and achieve inclusive economic development.
He also canceled Independence Day celebrations and put the savings into stemming a cholera outbreak.
A Bangladeshi Prescription for CholeraDHAKA – By now, cholera should be history.
Unfortunately, the world is not so simple and neat, and the nightmare of cholera persists.
In many parts of the world, cholera has in fact been tamed.
And even in resource-starved countries and regions where cholera remains a problem, the availability of oral rehydration therapy, or ORT, has helped prevent countless deaths.
And yet cholera continues to flare up during times of crisis, killing the most vulnerable among us.
One of the worst epidemics today is ravaging Yemen, where armed conflict has led to the collapse of health, water, and sanitation systems – precisely the conditions under which cholera thrives.
The first cholera cases were reported in October 2016; within a year, the number of cases had soared to more than 600,000.
They observed the treatment of cholera patients in our hospital, an experience that provided hands-on training for case management and assessing dehydration status.
Bangladesh knows wartime cholera all too well.
In the ensuing conflict, refugees poured across the border into neighboring India into crowded camps, creating conditions that inevitably gave rise to cholera outbreaks.
American researchers in Bangladesh had shown that ORT could reverse fatal dehydration in cholera patients, but its effectiveness outside hospitals had not yet been proven.
Now, new wartime cholera crises have emerged, and Bangladeshi expertise is again being called into service.
These desperate and vulnerable people are crowded into refugee camps, and there is a high risk that conditions may lead to a deadly cholera epidemic.
We have also worked with the WHO to secure some 900,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine (OCV), an internationally accepted tool to prevent and control outbreaks.
But time and again, researchers and health workers in Bangladesh have demonstrated their expertise at containing cholera outbreaks and saving lives.
In Yemen, a civil war rages amid an uncontrollable cholera epidemic.
Last year, when the government refused to inform the public about a devastating cholera outbreak, journalists with Radio Dabanga, working with doctors and nurses, used the WhatsApp messaging service to share information about prevention and treatment.
Paradoxically, droughts can favor water-borne diseases--including cholera, a cause of severe diarrhea--by wiping out supplies of safe drinking water, concentrating contaminants, and preventing good hygiene.
The Diarrhea PioneersPALO ALTO – On top of the devastation caused in Haiti by the January earthquake, Hurricane Tomas this month, and the subsequent dislocations, exposure, and malnutrition, the country is now experiencing an accelerating cholera outbreak.
Indeed, it is humbling to remember that some of history’s most deadly invasions were carried out by single-cell organisms, such as cholera, bubonic plague, and tuberculosis.
But Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, now two years old, has become a humanitarian disaster, complete with a naval blockade that has led to widespread famine and 500,000 cases of cholera.
Historically, in most societies, obesity implied wealth and health – expensive epicurean habits and no tuberculosis, cholera, or other wasting illnesses.
With water and sanitation facilities knocked out, the country is now facing the worst cholera outbreak in modern history.
In such an environment, outbreaks of an old disease (such as cholera) or a new one may lead to new regional and global pandemics.
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