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Cholera Outbreak: WHO Raises Alert, Says, Outbreaks in 23 Countries<\/div>\n
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The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Friday announced the outbreak of cholera in 23 countries, warning that\u00a0 20 more countries sharing land borders with the affected countries are at risk.<\/div>\n
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Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, stated this during the bloc\u2019s online media conference.<\/div>\n
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Mr Ghebreyesus further said that a total of more than one billion people globally, were at the risk of cholera.<\/div>\n
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\u201cCholera spreads through contaminated water, so clean water is needed urgently wherever there is an acute outbreak, to prevent transmission,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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According to him, WHO also strongly recommends countries at risk of cholera outbreaks to scale up surveillance so cases can be identified and managed as quickly as possible.<\/div>\n
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The WHO boss noted that though there were effective vaccines for cholera, supply, however, was very limited.<\/div>\n
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According to Mr Ghebreyesus, the International Coordinating Group that manages the global cholera vaccine stockpile in 2022 suspended the standard two-dose regimen, recommending instead a single-dose approach to extend supply.<\/div>\n
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He, however, said in the medium-to-long-term, it remained important that global vaccine production was increased.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn the meantime, we must rely on other measures to stop outbreaks and save lives,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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According to him, over the past few weeks there have been many reports of mammals, including minks, otters, foxes and sea lions, being infected with H5N1 avian influenza.<\/div>\n
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He noted that the H5N1 had spread widely in wild birds and poultry for 25 years, but the recent spillover to mammals needed to be monitored closely.<\/div>\n
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Mr Ghebreyesus, however, disclosed that at the moment, WHO had assessed the risk to humans as low.<\/div>\n
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He said that since H5N1 first emerged in 1996, they had only seen rare and non-sustained transmission of H5N1 to and between humans.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBut we cannot assume that will remain the case, and we must prepare for any change in the status quo.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAs always, people are advised not to touch or collect dead or sick wild animals, but to report to local authorities.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWHO is working with national authorities and partners to monitor the situation closely, and to study cases of H5N1 infection in humans when they occur,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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WHO\u2019s global laboratory network, the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, identifies and monitors strains of circulating influenza viruses, and provides advice to countries on their risk to human health and available treatment or control measures.<\/div>\n
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WHO recommends countries strengthen surveillance in settings where humans and farmed or wild animals interact.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWHO is also continuing to engage with manufacturers to make sure that if needed, supplies of vaccines and antivirals would be available for global use.<\/div>\n
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On the issue of breastfeeding, the WHO helmsman disclosed that a new research had found that less than half of babies born globally, were being breastfed exclusively for the first six months of life.<\/div>\n
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Mr Ghebreyesus noted that this was because women lacked support they needed to breastfeed, with more than half a billion working class women globally, lacking adequate maternity protections.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMeanwhile, misleading formula milk marketing claims, undermine breastfeeding at every turn.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAlmost every country has signed the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, which restricts marketing of formula milk.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHowever, regulations are largely unenforced,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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\u201cGhebreyesus called on governments and policy makers, to promote breastfeeding by ensuring all women had adequate maternity protections.<\/div>\n
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He recommended at least six months maternity leave with full pay for nursing mothers, as well as time-off for breastfeeding when they resumed work.<\/div>\n
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He also reiterated WHO\u2019s call for governments to end exploitative marketing of artificial milk, and increase health sector support for breastfeeding.<\/div>\n
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Cholera Outbreak: WHO Raises Alert, Says, Outbreaks in 23 Countries The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Friday announced the outbreak of cholera in 23 countries, warning that\u00a0 20 more countries sharing land borders with the affected countries are at risk. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, stated this during the bloc\u2019s online media conference. 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