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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]
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 .
WHO called it "the worst cholera outbreak in the world". [88] ... Map of the 2008–2009 cholera outbreak in sub-Saharan Africa showing the statistics as of 12 ...
The 2023–2024 Zambian cholera outbreak, part of the 2022–2024 Southern Africa cholera outbreak, is currently one of the most severe health crises in the country's recent history, [1] with its origins traced back to January 2023. [2] The outbreak initially surfaced in Vubwi District in the Eastern Province and Mwansabombwe District in ...
2007 Iraq cholera outbreak; 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak; 2009 Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak; 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak; 2012 Sierra Leonean cholera outbreak; 2014–2015 African cholera outbreak; 2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak; 2018–2019 Zimbabwe cholera outbreak; 2020 cholera outbreak in Bengaluru; 2022 cholera outbreak in ...
The west-African outbreak of cholera during 1970–1971 infected more than 400,000 persons. [19] Africa had a high cholera fatality rate of 16% by 1962. 25 countries were infected by the end of 1971 and, between 1972 and 1991, cholera spread throughout much of the remainder of Africa. [18]
The seventh cholera pandemic is officially a current pandemic and has been ongoing since 1961, according to a World Health Organization factsheet in March 2022. [1] Additionally, there have been many documented major local cholera outbreaks, such as a 1991–1994 outbreak in South America and, more recently, the 2016–2021 Yemen cholera outbreak .
Declared in June 2014, the West and Central African cholera outbreak as of January 25, 2015 claimed 1,683 registered deaths and over 91,361 reported cases with a reported case fatality rate (CFR) of 2% in 11 countries, which is 3 times more than in 2013.