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Life & Style
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Health
10/19/2024 12:06:50 PM
There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardising work to stop the disease’s spread.
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World
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Region
10/16/2024 8:13:58 PM
The risk of cholera spreading in Lebanon is "very high", the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, after a case of the acute and potentially deadly diarrhoeal infection was detected in the conflict-hit country.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/23/2024 10:13:05 PM
Cholera is spreading in war-torn Sudan, killing at least 388 people and sickening about 13,000 others over the past two months on Monday, health authorities said, as more than 17 months of fighting between the military and a notorious paramilitary group shows no sign of abating.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/4/2024 11:18:00 PM
With cholera spreading in Sudan, Egypt’s Ministry of Health is taking precautionary measures to control cross-border outbreaks.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/4/2024 9:25:25 PM
The number of cholera cases and deaths rose sharply last year, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, calling for more to be done to stem the preventable disease.
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Egypt
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Health
8/28/2024 4:27:35 PM
Egypt’s Cabinet Media Centre asserted Wednesday that no cholera cases have been detected in any of the country's governorates.
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World
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War in Sudan
8/19/2024 8:32:52 PM
Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks, health authorities said Sunday.
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World
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War in Sudan
8/17/2024 8:28:34 PM
Sudan's health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry.
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World
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Region
8/16/2024 7:01:09 PM
Yemen’s rival parties are making military preparations and threatening to return to war as hunger and cholera are increasing in the Arab world’s poorest nation, UN officials said Thursday.
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World
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Region
5/13/2024 8:08:33 PM
The United Nations on Monday expressed fears at what it called a "rapidly worsening" outbreak of cholera in war-ravaged Yemen, with more than 40,000 suspected cases since October, mainly in areas controlled by Houthi rebels.
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World
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Africa
4/8/2024 2:48:11 PM
Rescuers carried out search operations off the northern coast of Mozambique on Monday after a makeshift ferry boat carrying people fleeing a cholera outbreak capsized, killing at least 97.
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World
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Africa
1/15/2024 5:52:06 PM
Zambia said Monday it had received a first batch of more than a million oral doses of cholera vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight a dangerous outbreak.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/26/2023 2:45:28 PM
Outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps amid deadly fighting between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force, the U.N. health agency said on Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
9/20/2023 6:42:09 PM
Heavy rain in the conflict-ridden east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is making conditions "unlivable" for millions, the World Food Programme said Wednesday, calling for $630 million in emergency aid.
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World
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Africa
5/24/2023 12:00:22 PM
A grieving family gathers in their yard in a town near Pretoria, mourning the death of a relative who fell victim to a deadly cholera outbreak which has killed 15 people in recent days.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/21/2023 10:52:18 AM
One billion people in 43 countries are at risk of cholera — a “pandemic killing the poor” — despite prevention and treatment being relatively straightforward, the United Nations warned .
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World
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Africa
3/23/2023 6:09:45 PM
Devastation in southern Africa wrought by Cyclone Freddy is raising "major health risks," including the spread of cholera, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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World
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Africa
3/20/2023 5:48:55 PM
Malawi faces increased risk of a surge in cholera cases following the devastation caused by Cyclone Freddy that has destroyed water systems and toilets, the health ministry warned Monday.
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World
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Africa
2/9/2023 3:55:53 PM
The deadliest cholera outbreak in Malawi's history has killed at least 1,210 people, while vaccines remain scarce, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Theater
2/7/2023 7:32:28 PM
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