World’s Major Cholera Outbreaks Since 2010 – Haiti Strikes Again

Seven pandemics cholera have appeared in the last 200 years, with the first pandemic to come from India in 1817. Cholera strikes her again Haitiwith 33 deaths as of October 19, as the disease, which can prove fatal within hours, has re-emerged around the world, mostly in poor countries, largely due to armed conflicts and climate disasters.

The following are major epidemics cholera where appeared in the last 12 years, as reported by the Athens News Agency:

2022: Syria’s worst cholera outbreak in 10 years

Syria is facing its worst cholera outbreak in more than a decade, with at least 39 deaths since September, amid a shortage of drinking water and war-caused damage to water treatment infrastructure.

2021-2022: Two hundred dead in Cameroon

Cameroon, which is often hit by the scourge of cholera, faced from October 2021 to August this year a resurgence of the disease, which claimed the lives of more than 200 people out of a total of more than 10,000 it affected.

2021: Estimated 2,300 deaths in Nigeria

Africa’s most populous country is also one that regularly experiences cholera outbreaks. In 2021, the disease claimed the lives of more than 2,300 people, particularly among children aged 5 to 14, according to Nigerian health authorities.

2019/20/21: Vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Cholera became endemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly in the eastern part of the vast country, where the disease spread mainly in refugee camps.

Collective vaccination campaigns were organized there in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

The disease has killed more than 150 people among more than 8,000 cases recorded in the country in 2021, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

2019: after the cyclones in Mozambique

In March and April 2019, the passage of two cyclones through Mozambique, which caused significant flooding, led to cholera outbreaks in the country where mass vaccination against the disease was organized.

2017: one million cases in Yemen

Torn since 2015 by armed conflict combined with a severe humanitarian crisis exacerbated by its blockade by Saudi Arabia, Yemen faced a terrible cholera epidemic between April and December 2017: 2,500 people died from the disease, while the total number of cases exceeded one million.

Cholera made a comeback in 2019 with more than 100,000 cases and nearly 200 deaths between January and March.

The blueheads had dumped feces in the Artibonite river. The first cases of cholera appeared in this region, before the epidemic spread throughout the country. THE UN acknowledged that he played a role in introducing cholera into Haiti in August 2016.