Cholera

The socialist government of Zimbabwe on Sunday announced emergency measures to contain a fast-growing epidemic of cholera that has spread to every province in the country.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council proposing the creation of an international “rapid action force” to help police in Haiti combat the gangs that have taken over critical infrastructure and blocked humanitarian aid.

Four softshell turtles sold at a wet market in Wuhan, China — the origin site of the pandemic-inducing Chinese coronavirus — tested positive for a pathogen capable of causing cholera, a bacterial disease, on Wednesday, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faced controversy during his campaign to run the global agency for being part of a government that repeatedly denied cholera outbreaks, according to the New York Times.

The United Nations reported on Wednesday that a measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed at least a hundred children since the beginning of the year, adding to a medical and security crisis that already included Ebola, cholera, and factional violence that makes it difficult for doctors to treat any of the deadly diseases.

At least 25 people have died and nearly 4,000 diagnosed with cholera amid a growing outbreak in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, local media reported Friday.

Contents: From missile strikes and bombings to cholera, war-torn Yemen deteriorates; Saudi Arabia sacks its top tier of military commanders

War-ravaged Yemen, currently gripped by a humanitarian crisis and cholera epidemic, is spiraling towards “total” collapse as an unable or indifferent world just stands by watching, declares a high-ranking United Nations official.

The humanitarian situation in the Yemeni provinces of Hudaydah and Taiz is deteriorating further, driving families to live out “in the open in harsh conditions” and resort to “begging and child labor” to survive, reports the United Nations as a cholera epidemic grips the war-ravaged nation.

Yemen’s long-running and brutal civil war has produced a horrifying outbreak of cholera, which the World Health Organization says has killed 51 people since April 27, with new victims reported constantly.

In a 2012 email chain published online by the organization Wikileaks, senior members of the Clinton Foundation rejected the idea of allowing Bill Clinton to become a member of group promoting agricultural development in Nigeria, with one director arguing that any aid to Nigeria would detract from fundraising for Haiti.

The Hurricane Matthew death toll in Haiti has reached more than 100 as of Thursday, officials said.

On August 20, 2016 the United Nations did something it had not been willing to do for six years: it accepted responsibility for the 2010 cholera outbreak that has since killed 10,000 and infected millions in Haiti.

A cholera outbreak that had affected a reported 100 Iraqis in late September has now spread to over 1,400 patients, Iraq’s health ministry warned this week. The disease, carried through unclean water, has spread throughout the country, though the Iraqi government can only monitor cases in regions not controlled by the Islamic State.

A suburb of Baghdad is currently experiencing a wave of cholera, triggered by increasingly poor hygiene and depleted resources as the Iraqi government struggles to expand its control over territories coveted by the Islamic State terrorist group.