Some 1,800 dead from cholera in Ebola-hit DR Congo: WHO
The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a severe cholera outbreak that has killed approximately 1,800 people this year. The crisis is exacerbated by ongoing conflict, the concurrent Ebola epidemic, and the rainy season.
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The intersection of armed conflict and public health crises in the DRC poses a significant threat to regional stability and humanitarian efforts.
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Add to Preferred Sources Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cholera has killed around 1,800 people so far this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is also battling its deadliest Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Some 60,000 cases of the diarrheal disease have been recorded in what the U.N. health agency's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described as the vast central African country's "worst cholera outbreak in decades."
Most of the infections had been detected in the DRC's eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, both prey to a litany of armed groups and partly under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 militia, Tedros said.
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