Deadly cholera outbreak in Malawi partly blamed on climate change | Business

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Over the past year, more than 1 000 people in Malawi have died of cholera, and climate change is partly to blame for the impact of the outbreak. | News24_Business

Over the past year more than 1 000 people in Malawi have died of cholera.

It began when Malawi, along with Madagascar, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, were hit by a series of cyclones and storms starting in January 2022. That caused floods, deaths, and displacement across the region. Heat waves cause thousands of deaths, with many falling victim because their homes aren't adapted to hotter weather. The 2022 heatwave in Europe led to more than 20 000 excess deaths.

Then there's cholera, a disease of poverty and poor infrastructure. The strains of bacteria that cause cholera spread through the feacal-oral route, which tends to happen in places where there is a lack of access to clean water and poor hygiene. In October, the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization launched a platform with funding from the Wellcome Trust to provide people with information they can use to save lives. Many of the solutions are straightforward, such as improving early warnings of extreme-weather events and offering more advice on what to do if you're affected, but remain hard to execute because the right information isn’t with the right people.

 

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_Business No doubt the same 'science' that 'proved' it is responsible here, used to be spread by dirty water, nowadays it's climate change

_Business Climate change has no shame!!! There was never cholera until it started. Huh? Cholera is caused by climate change? I bet maralia and Covid 19 allso.

_Business Stop blaming climate change like it was Jan van Riebeeck's older brother!

_Business Twak!

_Business Maybe prophet Bushiri said it's because of climate change

_Business 'Climate change' is to blame for everything now. I can't wait for it to be blamed for divorces too.

_Business Climate change? Don’t you get that from drinking unsafe water?

_Business The climate has always been changing, stop with your fear mongering BS.

_Business Nooooo!

_Business Climate change, come on 🙄

_Business That's utter rubbish! Corrupt incompetent black governments are to blame..

_Business Poor sanitation, little or no infrastructure and non existent health care is responsible.. Not climate change

_Business Now cholera and climate change in one sentence , you people and your agendas , ha ha ha ha ha .

_Business No one bats an eye lid

_Business ClownWorld_

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