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Kenya: Stepping Up the Fight to End Cholera and Chikungunya Outbreaks in Mandera County
2016-06-05 09:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Mandera's double whammy, the concurrent outbreaks of cholera and chikungunya, is bringing to the fore the need for accelerated epidemic preparedness and prevention systems. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated. Chikungunya virus is most often spread to people by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue, yellow fever and zika virus. Its symptoms include high fever, joint pain, rash and headache....
Deadly cholera outbreaks could increase with climate change
2014-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Increasingly severe heat waves and more frequent and intense flooding due to climate change will spur the spread of cholera in vulnerable regions of the world, new research suggests. In an effort to better understand the environmental conditions that cause deadly cholera outbreaks and to be able to predict them in the future, researchers based at the University of Maryland compiled more than 40 years of cholera studies to compare weather and groundwater conditions to patterns of outbreaks. Based...
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OIE Reports Hog Cholera Outbreak in Colombia
2013-11-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
COLOMBIA - The Colombian veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of Classical Swine Fever (CSF), also commonly known as hog cholera, at a farm in Cesar in the north of the country, near the border with Venzuela.
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Preventing Cholera Outbreak in Haiti
2013-09-25 10:42:54| oilandgasonline News Articles
Operation Blessing International is making a significant impact across the globe through humanitarian efforts and clean water initiatives. This videos highlights Operation Blessing's disaster relief initiatives for clean water in Haiti during Hurricane Isaac in August 2012. MIOX and Operation Blessing continue to work closely on developing economical and effective solutions for disaster relief water disinfection.
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Without Funding, Haiti Faces Endemic Cholera
2013-07-26 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Lack of financing for a 10-year eradication plan means that cholera will likely be endemic to Haiti for years to come. Cholera spreads via contaminated food, water and fecal matter. One of the essential parts of the government's 2.2-billion-dollar National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in Haiti is financing for sanitation systems nationwide."Haiti is the only country in the entire world whose sanitation coverage decreased in the last decade." -- Dr. Rishi Rattan of Physicians for Haiti...
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