At least 20 people have been killed so far in an outbreak of cholera in Nigeria’s southern Cross River state, a local official said on Sunday. Janet Ekpeyong, head of the Cross River Primary Healthcare [Read More]
BEIRUT – Lebanon on Thursday received more than 900,000 doses of the cholera vaccine from the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Coordination Group (ICG), the United Nations Information Center in Beirut said in a [Read More]
BEIRUT – Lebanese caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad said on Wednesday that the cholera outbreak in Lebanon is under control given the limited number of confirmed daily cases, the National News Agency reported. In the [Read More]
Haiti and the United Nations are seeking 145 million U.S. dollars for humanitarian relief, including for a cholera outbreak that has killed 161 people, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. Early last month, for the [Read More]
BEIRUT – A national vaccination campaign against cholera was launched on Saturday in northern Lebanon, which was hit hard by the disease over the last several weeks, the health ministry announced in a statement. The [Read More]
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health has received 600,000 doses of cholera vaccine from the International Coordination Group (ICG) managing the global supply of cholera vaccines. A statement released by the World Health Organization [Read More]
BEIRUT – Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad said on Tuesday that his country will launch the first-phase vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday as the outbreak is now under control, the National News Agency reported. [Read More]
The United Nations and partners are scaling up aid to Haiti, which has been hit with a spreading cholera outbreak, a UN spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office [Read More]
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad has called on donor countries and international institutions to support the country’s hospitals in the fight against the cholera epidemic, the National News Agency reported. Abiad made the remarks after [Read More]
Lebanon has received its first batch of cholera vaccines as part of the international effort to help curb the spread of the life-threatening disease in the country, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad announced Monday. The [Read More]
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