Expert Says African Cholera Epidemic Preventable

Although illness rates and mortality from cholera have been drastically reduced in a vast majority of the world, Africa remains plagued by soaring cases and deaths from the waterborne intestinal disease. “It is time to sound the alarm,” say two global health experts, who are calling Africa’s ongoing cholera epidemic “unconscionable” on both regional and global levels. In a Perspective published in the March 12, 2009 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, Richard L.

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Filed under: Tropical on March 31st, 2009