Health Alerts

Active cholera transmission, which has mostly affected young children, continues in Banadir and Lower Shebelle regions in the outbreak that has been underway for more than two years, producing 10,113 cases and 51 associated deaths. While in South Sudan, recent floods have caused a spike in water- and vector-borne infections, including acute watery diarrhoea and malaria; and in Ethiopia, South Omo and Gofa zones have reported most of the 1,000 or more cholera infections and 24 associated deaths since mid-December. Read more.