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Patients in Taiz hospital as Cholera cases surge
Cholera is surging once again in Yemen, with the UN reporting that the number of suspected cases has doubled in March over previous months and doctors in overwhelmed health facilities fearing it could rival a 2017 outbreak that spiraled...
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First cholera cases confirmed in cyclone-hit Beira
The first cases of cholera have been confirmed in the cyclone-ravaged city of Beira, Mozambican authorities announced on Wednesday, raising the stakes in an already desperate fight to help survivors sheltering in increasingly squalid...
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Cholera vaccination drive starts in Mozambique
Efforts to vaccinate nearly 900,000 survivors of Cyclone Idai against cholera began in earnest on Wednesday as huge queues formed in the Mozambique city of Beira.
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US army help in Mozambique; WHO on cholera
Mozambican and international health workers raced on Monday to contain a cholera outbreak in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where the number of cases has jumped to more than 1,000.
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Vaccines arrive as Mozambique cholera cases rise
Cholera cases in cyclone-hit Mozambique have risen above 1,400, government officials said Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses arrived in an attempt to limit the rapid spread of the disease.
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ONLYONAP Human cost of Yemen cholera crisis GRAPHIC
Seven-year-old Ibrahim Mohib died in a Sanaa hospital on Wednesday despite the best efforts of doctors to save him.
Sky News
Cholera outbreak decleared in Mozambique
VOICED: Officials in Mozambique have declared a cholera outbreak, one week after cyclone winds, floods and heavy rains hit the country. Entire villages have been flattened, with at least 41 people confirmed dead. Interviews: Ali Omar,...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Haiti: Red Cross sets up new cholera center
The International Red Cross sets up a cholera treatment center in the southern Carrefour suburb of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday. Port au Prince, Haiti. (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Garbage crisis brings cholera to Yemen's historic Taez
Mounds of stinking garbage line the streets of Yemen's historic city of Taez once renowned as one of the most beautiful places in the country but now torn apart by war and becoming a breeding ground for mosquitos as well as deadly...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Stockholm guide offers COVID-weary Swedes a tour of pandemics past
With tourists confined at home and Stockholmers staying away from crowds, one Swedish tour guide is trying to boost his flagging business by offering coronavirus-weary Swedes tours of the city's previous pandemics, from the black death...
Sky News
In Mozambique, more than 2500 people have died, and 600,000 people have fled from fighters in the province of Cabo Delgado...
VOICED: In Mozambique, more than 2500 people have died, and 600,000 people have fled from fighters in the province of Cabo Delgado. SHOWS: Displaced people including children in makeshift shelters in refugee camp, sick children being...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : DR Congo volcano displaced face cholera, water shortage risks
Displaced people who fled Goma to take refuge in Sake after a volcanic eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk of infection by diseases and water shortage, a local leader and a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) officer warn...
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CLEAN : Cubans ask patron saint and orishas for help amid economic crisis
Thousands of Cubans, many dressed in yellow, ask the Virgin of Caridad del Cobre for help in the face of the country's misfortunes (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : In Syria, the spread of cholera accelerates
Health workers tend to cholera patients at a treatment centre dedicated to the acute diarrhoeal infection, which has reappeared in Syria for the first time since 2009 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Haiti: People with cholera symptoms receive treatment at clinic
People with cholera symptoms receive treatment at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Cite Soleil, a slum in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : "Safety first" for tourists in Malawi as cholera outbreak rages on
Angela Sakwata, a health officer from the Salima district in Malawi says they registered "764 cases (of cholera) and out of these we have lost 22" the day before (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : 'This system must be dissolved': Haitians protest amid multiple crises
Protesters take to the streets of Port-au-Prince as Haiti faces overlapping crises, including powerful gangs taking control of the main port and blocking fuel deliveries (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Report: U.S. Considering Suspending Humanitarian Aid To War-Torn Yemen
The Washington Post reports that demands by Iranian-backed rebels to tax humanitarian aid may force major aid cuts from the State Department.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Cholera epidemic still claiming lives in Haiti after five years
In the months following the 2010 earthquake Haiti was hit with a second disaster in the form of a cholera epidemic
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VOICED : Cholera epidemic still claiming lives in Haiti after five years
In the months following the 2010 earthquake, Haiti was hit with a second disaster in the form of a cholera epidemic (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
TED-Ed
How a Few Scientists Transformed the Way We Think About Disease
During the first few sniffles of a cold, you can't help wondering where you picked up the illness. Watch an Ed Ted video that details the difference between miasma theory and germ theory, and the ways that Dr. John Snow's research...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Victoria, Season 3: Cholera and Contagion
Discover how the work of Dr. John Snow during the London cholera epidemic of 1853 led to the discovery of how the disease was transmitted, in this video [2:17] excerpt from the 2019 series Victoria, Season 3, Masterpiece. Challenging the...