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The 2022–2024 Southern Africa cholera outbreak is an outbreak that has spread across Southern Africa. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It started in Machinga District in Malawi in March 2022. [ 4 ] The cholera outbreak in Malawi linked to cases in South Africa , the strains belong to the seventh cholera pandemic .
[3] [4] [5] By October 2023, the Zambia National Public Health Institute reported a cholera outbreak in the capital, Lusaka. [6] [7] Cholera cases have so far broken out in 15 districts in five out of the country's 10 provinces, with Lusaka, the country's capital recording the highest number of cases. [8]
The federal health ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday that 18 people had died and 265 infected with cholera in al-Qadarif state. A doctors' syndicate in Sudan said 3,398 cases of dengue ...
An outbreak of cholera began in Yemen in October 2016. [2] [3] [4] The outbreak peaked in 2017 with over 2,000 reported deaths in that year alone.[5] [6] In 2017 and 2019, war-torn Yemen accounted for 84% and 93% of all cholera cases in the world, with children constituting the majority of reported cases. [7]
Nearly 100,000 Haitians have been displaced by gang-related violence, which is taking the country to the brink of collapse as critical roads and the seaports remain under the control of armed groups.
The seventh cholera pandemic is the seventh major outbreak of cholera beginning in 1961 and continuing to the present. [1] Cholera has become endemic in many countries. In 2017, WHO announced a global strategy aiming to end the pandemic by 2030.
Cholera continues to affect an estimated 3–5 million people worldwide and causes 28,800–130,000 deaths a year. [2] [7] To date, seven cholera pandemics have occurred, with the most recent beginning in 1961, and continuing today. [13] The illness is rare in high-income countries, and affects children most severely.
The stromatolites found today are almost all carbonate rocks (made of limestone), but these structures are mostly composed of the minerals gypsum and halite (rock salt), Hynek said.