UN Agencies warn that cholera epidemic is spreading in West Africa

« Fatality rate especially high in some countries » Dakar/Brazzaville, 5 September 2012 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s agency, UNICEF, are warning that the current cholera emergency in West Africa is set to get much worse as rains and floods create the conditions for the disease to spread faster and further. Already this year a total of 55,289 cases of cholera have been reported in 15 countries and just over 1109 people have died. The disease is spreading fast in the countries of the Mano River Basin (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone) as well as along the… read more