Nearly 470,000 cholera cases reported in Haiti over the past year – UN Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. Some 250,000 of the cholera patients […]

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called today for an urgent increase in the efforts to combat “one of the worst ever” cholera outbreaks affecting large numbers of people across West and Central Africa. In a news release issued today, UNICEF urged governments to coordinate their preparation and response measures not only within their borders […]

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