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December 20, 2019
The World Health Organisation, W.H.O says the number of cholera cases decreased globally, by 60 per cent in 2018.
The organisation made this known in a statement issued fromits headquarters in Geneva  Switzerland, entitled: “Cholera Prevention andControl Report.”
The report pointed to an encouraging trend in choleraprevention and control in the world’s major hot-spots, including Haiti, Somaliaand the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestionof food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It affectsboth children and adults, and can kill within hours if left untreated.
WHO estimates that each year, cholera infects one million tofour million people and claims up to 143 thousand lives.
The statement noted that there were over 499 thousand casesof cholera and about three thousand deaths in 2018, reports from 34 countriesshowed.
It quoted WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,as saying the decrease we are seeing in several major cholera-endemic countriesdemonstrates increased engagement of countries.