Cholera kills nine people in Tanzania as disease hits 1,560 victims within four weeks of January 2025
Cholera has killed more than 9 people in Tanzania so far, as the country records 1,568 Cholera Cases within 28 days of January 2025.
South Sudan suffered the most cholera cases in Africa, within the four weeks period where 12,897 people in the country were affected, with 237 deaths being reported from Juba.
The Democratic Republic of Congo records 1,814 cholera cases, among them 20 deaths within the last 28 days.
This is according to the latest report from the World Health Organization (WHO)
Ghana with 2,071 cholera cases is also high up on the list with the country recording 15 deaths.
On the other hand, Cholera killed more than 5800 people in 33 countries around the World in the previous year 2024, as far as the World Health Organization’s latest report is concerned.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that from the first day of January to the 29th of December 2024, a cumulative total of 804 721 cholera cases and 5805 deaths were reported from 33 countries across the five WHO regions.
The Eastern Mediterranean Region recorded the highest numbers, followed by the African Region, the South-East Asia Region, the Region of the Americas, and the European Region.
No outbreaks were reported in the Western Pacific Region during this period.
However, the number of cholera cases and deaths summed up in December 2024 were 21 percent and 5 percent lower respectively, than those reported in December 2023.
In December, Oral Cholera Vaccines production remained high at 5.5 million doses, thanks to a simplified formulation and production process introduced and prequalified in 2024.
This new formulation and process allowed the average stockpile to rise to 5.9 million doses in December compared to 3.5 million and 0.6 million, respectively in November and October – exceeding the five million doses needed for emergency stockpile at all times for effective outbreak response.
Still, the increased production has yet to meet growing global demand, as demand continues to exceed supply, which continues to hinder efforts to control cholera outbreaks and respond rapidly to the disease’s spread.
Conflict, mass displacement, disasters from natural hazards, and climate change have intensified outbreaks, particularly in rural and flood-affected areas, where poor infrastructure and limited healthcare access delay treatment.
These cross-border factors have made cholera outbreaks increasingly complex and harder to control.