WHO Warns Of Cholera Spread From Sudan To Neighboring Countries

Reuters (6/13, Farge) reported the World Health Organization warned Friday “that cholera cases in Sudan are set to rise and could spread to neighbouring countries, including Chad, which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s civil war in crowded conditions.” Dr Shible Sahbani, WHO Representative for Sudan, “said that cholera had reached 13 states in Sudan, including North and South Darfur which border Chad, and that 1,854 people had already died in the latest wave as the dangerous, rainy season sets in.” Sahbani “called for humanitarian corridors and temporary ceasefires to allow mass vaccination campaigns against cholera and other disease outbreaks such as Dengue fever and malaria.”