More than a billion people are at risk of contracting cholera, and three countries have reported new outbreaks of the disease this week. It has been reported TASS With reference to Philippe Barbosa, WHO Team Leader for Cholera and Epidemic Diarrhea.
At the same time, the total number of countries where cholera cases were detected exceeded 20.
“We estimate that more than a billion people in 43 countries are at direct risk of contracting cholera,” added Barboz.
Now 22 countries in the five WHO regions continue to combat the spread of cholera.
Barboz also noted that 50% more countries are facing cholera epidemics in 2022 than in 2021.
Previously at WHO declaration about the very high risk of cholera spreading around the world. The forecast was made due to the increase in the number of epidemics and the lack of vaccines and other resources.