Guinea reports 1 cholera case, down from thousands, in success overshadowed by Ebola crisis usnews/news/world/articles/2014/11/26/guinea-hit-by-ebola-reports-only-1-cholera-case The health workers rode on canoes and rickety boats to deliver cholera vaccines to remote islands in Guinea. Months later, the country has recorded only one confirmed cholera case this year, down from thousands. The rare success, overshadowed by the Ebola outbreak that has ravaged Guinea and two other West African countries, is being cautiously attributed to the vaccinations and to hand-washing in the campaign against Ebola. Helen Matzger of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Guineas experience is encouraging other countries to accept the cholera vaccine and has led the GAVI Alliance — which works to deliver vaccines to the worlds poor — to invest in a global stockpile and the U.N. World Health Organization to increase that stockpile to about 2 million doses. [AP]
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:59:30 +0000
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