Posted on 12/16/2022 6:09:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Geneva (AFP) – Climate change is fuelling a global cholera upsurge, the WHO said Friday, warning the situation was compounded by vaccine shortages and will only worsen unless it is stamped out soon.
The World Health Organization is responding to cholera outbreaks in 29 countries, including Haiti, which has more than 1,200 confirmed cases, more than 14,000 suspected cases and more than 280 reported deaths.
This week, Haiti received almost 1.2 million doses of oral cholera vaccines.
But the WHO said that vaccine stockpiles were extremely low -- and that manufacturers were not enthusiastic about producing a vaccine chiefly aimed at some of the poorest countries in the world.
"If we don't control the outbreak now, the situation will get worse and worse," Philippe Barboza, the WHO's team lead on cholera, told reporters in Geneva.
Cholera is contracted from a bacterium that is generally transmitted through contaminated food or water.
It causes diarrhoea and vomiting, and can be especially dangerous for young children.
"The factors which drive cholera are still the same: poverty, vulnerability and people who do not have access to clean water," Barboza said.
These are amplified by conflict, humanitarian crises and natural disasters, which reduce access to drinking water.
"But this year, we have a factor which is even more important: the direct impact of climate change, with a succession of major droughts, unprecedented floods in certain parts of the world, and cyclones which have amplified most of these epidemics," he said.
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Is there anything that these kooks *can’t* blame climate change for?
No one EVER puts out a report about the good things that could result from climate change. hmmmmmmm
These Turd Worlders at WHO need to explain to us what “fueled” Cholera “surges” before the bass turds invented climate change. What the bass turds are setting up with this nonsense is making Americans responsible for paying the medical bills of EVERY aho on the planet. America better take a stand against these foreigner scumbags and their boy, little Johnny “Heinz” Kerry.
Clearly white people’s fault that Haitians live like low IQ savages.
If only Haitians didn’t murder all the white people there.
Oh well, at least whitey isn’t oppressing them…
Yes, it’s climate change.
Not people pooping in drinking water and war.
Coldest and earliest winter in 20 years in the NW.
Thats because of Climate change.
NO, they are nitwits.
Climate change is why socialism will not work.
Climate Change is what used to be called weather.
Coldest and earliest winter in 20 years in the NW.
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That sort of logic doesn’t work with grifters.
EVERYTHING bad is the result of climate change. Even regional cold snaps. In fact, any time Buffalo gets one of their standard lake effect snow dumpings, the grifters come out and blame climate change.
It doesn’t matter what it is. Hot. Cold. Dry. Wet. Overgrowths. Die-offs. More people. Less People. High Tide. Low Tide. Erosion. Reclamation. Breeds proliferating. Breeds going extinct. They will put a spin on it.
I notice that “immigrants” moving all over the world isn’t on the list…
No, filth is and eating dirt cookies doesn’t help.
It didn't affect Plains tribes much, because their digestive systems had evolved to handle it. Palefaces, not so much.
Drink and eat through a mask-—duh! Problem solved....
The World Health Organization is staffed by Morons or they’re on the take
Exactly. When I was a kid, we called the weather changes “the four seasons.” It was natural back in those days. Of course, the world wasn’t as populated as it is now so it was harder for mother nature to take potshots at the people and their habitat. There weren’t as many of them blanketing every inch of the country. Soon, every idiot on the planet will be living in the land mass between Mehico and Canadah. Climate change will really make it tough for the idiots living here in the future.
Could it be that the cholera outbreak in Haiti has to do more with a total lack of basic sanitation than real or imagined climate change? Despite billions in aid, much of it sucked up by the Clinton crime syndicate, even the largest city in Haiti, Port au Prince, has no sewer system.
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