Cholera
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The cholera outbreak in Haiti persists due to lack of funding, UN says
Dec 31, 2016News Hour: The cholera outbreak that hit Haiti after Hurricane Matthew slammed the island has been contained but persists due to lack of funding, according to the United Nations. An epidemic of the waterborne disease —... -
Cholera outbreak spreading in Yemen
Oct 11, 2016News Hour: More cases of cholera have been registered in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday. The United Nations first reported the cholera outbreak on Friday. “The number of... -
Cholera and destruction after hurricane in Haiti
Oct 10, 2016News Hour: Patients arrived every 10 or 15 minutes, brought on motorcycles by relatives with vomit-covered shoulders and hoisted up the stairs into southwest Haiti’s Port-a-Piment hospital, where they could rest their weak, cholera-sapped limbs. Less... -
Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew’s wake
Oct 10, 2016News Hour: Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to... -
Cholera in South Sudan
Sep 4, 2016News Hour: A vaccination campaign got under way last month in South Sudan to stop a deadly outbreak of cholera. The health ministry, with support from WHO and other partners, has been ramping up disease surveillance,... -
IOM responds to suspected Cholera cases in Juba, South Sudan
Jul 21, 2016News Hour: IOM medical staff are responding to an upsurge of suspected cholera cases in Juba and providing emergency medical care to civilians displaced by last week’s fighting in South Sudan’s capital. On 17 July, the...
