whats-fuelling-the-deadly-cholera-outbreak-in-southern-africa 2024
Clinical surveillance systems obscure the true cholera infection burden in an endemic region - Feb 2024
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Monthly Cholera Update
Large population migrations into urban centers in developing countries are straining existing water and sanitation infrastructure and increasing disease risk. Epidemics are a marker for poverty and lack of basic sanitation. Multiple routes exist for spreading cholera, meaning that successful prevention may require different measures in different areas.
The effect of climate change on cholera disease: The road ahead using artificial neural network
Emerging infectious diseases are also affected by natural and anthropogenic, or human-caused, environmental and climate changes. During the 1990s, for example, Malaysian tropical forests were cleared to build palm oil plantations, which reduced local biodiversity and forced animals into developed areas in search of food. Due to deforestation, the fruit bat species that is the natural reservoir of the Nipah virus moved to fruit trees on family farms, which also raised pigs. The pigs became a vehicle through which the virus evolved into a form capable of infecting humans, leading to an outbreak of fatal illness in the local farming population. Similarly, deforestation has contributed to the re-emergence of Lassa virus in Liberia and malaria in Brazil. Malaria disproportionately affects pregnant women and young children in underdeveloped and developing countries. Of the 241 million cases of malaria reported by the WHO in 2020, about 95 percent were in the African region, where 96 percent of global malaria fatalities occurred.
