Social Cholera cases soar globally amid shortage of vaccines

[LeonardoBjj]

Resurgence classified as grade 3 emergency by WHO, with southern Africa and Haiti among those hardest hit

Cholera cases soared last year, according to preliminary data from the World Health Organization, which recorded 4,000 cholera deaths and 667,000 cases globally.

The numbers surpassed that of 2022, and the WHO has classified the global resurgence of cholera as a grade 3 emergency, its highest internal health emergency level.

Outbreaks were deadliest in Malawi and Haiti, where the number of deaths reached 1,771 and 1,156 respectively, making it the worst outbreak in Malawi’s history.

“The unprecedented rate of cases and deaths is terrifying, and utterly overwhelming the health systems of these countries,” said Machinda Marongwe, the programme director of Oxfam in Southern Africa. “The outbreak is spiralling into an uncontrollable health crisis.”

At least 30 other countries have reported cases since the beginning of 2024. Zambia reported 7,500 new cases since October and saw 500 new cases and 17 deaths in just 24 hours this week.

The Zambian president, Hakainde Hichilema, has urged people to move out of towns and back to rural areas as schools remain closed to prevent further spread. There have been reports of unrest fuelled by disinformation about the outbreak, emerging from neighbouring Mozambique.

At least three people lost their lives during a violent outburst in northern Mozambique this week when attackers torched buildings amid accusations that the government had deliberately spread the disease.

“Governments and agencies in the region need immediate funding to swiftly implement activities and projects that would help improve people’s hygiene and access to clean water, since these two factors are key in the fight against the spread,” Marongwe said.

Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads through contaminated water and food and causes profuse diarrhoea and vomiting.

Given the spread of the outbreak to new countries and global shortage of cholera vaccines, the WHO said that it continued to assess the risk level of the disease as “very high”.

Earlier last year Gavi, an international vaccine alliance, said that it expected the global shortage to last at least until 2025.

The outbreak of the waterborne disease has been further exacerbated by natural disasters and floods. Last year, eastern Africa saw devastating flooding, intensified by the climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-...cases-soar-globally-amid-shortage-of-vaccines

 

[blackheart]

Vaccines are soy and gay and I'm an anti human psychopathic demon so I'm glad more people are dead

/s

 

[Pliny Pete]

You couldnt find a fucking Lego syringe or nothing?

 

[Cajun]

Vaccines for this are rare as they prevent fecal/oral. Usually for travelers to that environment. But you wouldn't take it normally. These outbreaks are the type to happen fast and burn out fast. I don't get the op.

 

[Snubnoze707]

@LeonardoBjj

Why did you include a bunch of completely irrelevant pictures in this post?

Nothing in this article indicates this outbreak is due to a lack of vaccine uptake as a result of "hesitancy", it's due to lack of supply.

You should probably edit the opening post as it's incredibly misleading.

 

[Lord_Impaler]

You’re pictures are extremely relevant to this issue of cholera in Africa.

 

[Sinister]

Psyop, vaccines are globalist population control

 

[LeonardoBjj]

@LeonardoBjj

Why did you include a bunch of completely irrelevant pictures in this post?

Nothing in this article indicates this outbreak is due to a lack of vaccine uptake as a result of "hesitancy", it's due to lack of supply.

You should probably edit the opening post as it's incredibly misleading.

- Will do that. I just wanted to be a dick to anti-vax people. Because i took four shots.

 

[Renard]

Earlier last year Gavi, an international vaccine alliance, said that it expected the global shortage to last at least until 2025.

GAVI is a World Bank and Gates Foundation-funded public-private partnership who openly states that they're committed to creating "healthy markets for vaccines and other immunisation products." In other words it's a pharma lobby that facilitates the sale of drugs and vaccines, a lucrative and liability-free business, which operates under the pretense of being some sort of independent organization. If the choice is between investing money to create safe water sanitation systems so that cholera can be prevented altogether vs. buying millions of doses of vaccines to generate profit for their partners, they will always advocate for the latter.

They've been heavily involved with the WHO since their inception, who themselves are ~85% funded by "voluntary donations" every year, which typically come with strings attached. For example the Gates Foundation is one of the largest donors, giving $2B every year, but much of this funding is earmarked for vaccines only. In other words the contribution is meant to directly benefit the vaccine market and thus Gates' investments. Hence why the WHO acts like a broken record, constantly talking about needing more vaccines for this, more vaccines for that. There's never enough. People have an idea in their minds of what the WHO is like, some sort of fantasy about the WHO being a credible, independent organization which is based on what the organization might have been more like at some point many decades ago, but this idea is completely out of whack with reality.

 

[Fluffernutter]

This sounds like a lack of clean water issue, not a lack of vaccine issue.

 

[CyberRubberDuck]

Resurgence classified as grade 3 emergency by WHO, with southern Africa and Haiti among those hardest hit

Cholera cases soared last year, according to preliminary data from the World Health Organization, which recorded 4,000 cholera deaths and 667,000 cases globally.

The numbers surpassed that of 2022, and the WHO has classified the global resurgence of cholera as a grade 3 emergency, its highest internal health emergency level.

Outbreaks were deadliest in Malawi and Haiti, where the number of deaths reached 1,771 and 1,156 respectively, making it the worst outbreak in Malawi’s history.

“The unprecedented rate of cases and deaths is terrifying, and utterly overwhelming the health systems of these countries,” said Machinda Marongwe, the programme director of Oxfam in Southern Africa. “The outbreak is spiralling into an uncontrollable health crisis.”

At least 30 other countries have reported cases since the beginning of 2024. Zambia reported 7,500 new cases since October and saw 500 new cases and 17 deaths in just 24 hours this week.

The Zambian president, Hakainde Hichilema, has urged people to move out of towns and back to rural areas as schools remain closed to prevent further spread. There have been reports of unrest fuelled by disinformation about the outbreak, emerging from neighbouring Mozambique.

At least three people lost their lives during a violent outburst in northern Mozambique this week when attackers torched buildings amid accusations that the government had deliberately spread the disease.

“Governments and agencies in the region need immediate funding to swiftly implement activities and projects that would help improve people’s hygiene and access to clean water, since these two factors are key in the fight against the spread,” Marongwe said.

Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads through contaminated water and food and causes profuse diarrhoea and vomiting.

Given the spread of the outbreak to new countries and global shortage of cholera vaccines, the WHO said that it continued to assess the risk level of the disease as “very high”.

Earlier last year Gavi, an international vaccine alliance, said that it expected the global shortage to last at least until 2025.

The outbreak of the waterborne disease has been further exacerbated by natural disasters and floods. Last year, eastern Africa saw devastating flooding, intensified by the climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-...cases-soar-globally-amid-shortage-of-vaccines

Nothing to do with vaccines and everything to do with poor hygiene and dirty water. Basically, it only occurs when the country is a shit hole.

 

[44nutman]

That is why I wear condoms, which is why I never had Cholera.

 

[Sinister]

Nothing to do with vaccines and everything to do with poor hygiene and dirty water. Basically, it only occurs when the country is a shit hole.

Just so you're aware, vaccines for things like cholera are what wealthy Countries give to resource-exploited Countries as a minimum basic form of humanitarianism, since Nation-building is much more expensive. Itd be cool if that wasnt necessary because when one Country wanted its multi-National corporatione to operate there, they had to build significant infrastructure to support the local population and recycle profit into the local economy, but in places where you can bribe people in power to go around that, you just end up with a population that needs medicine to keep their children alive from sh*t we havent seen in over a hundred years.

 

[CyberRubberDuck]

Just so you're aware, vaccines for things like cholera are what wealthy Countries give to resource-exploited Countries as a minimum basic form of humanitarianism, since Nation-building is much more expensive. Itd be cool if that wasnt necessary because when one Country wanted its multi-National corporatione to operate there, they had to build significant infrastructure to support the local population and recycle profit into the local economy, but in places where you can bribe people in power to go around that, you just end up with a population that needs medicine to keep their children alive from sh*t we havent seen in over a hundred years.

Yep, i get that.
But it doesn't change the fact that they're treating the symptoms rather than the cause.
It's a bit like painting over mouldy walls.