WHO links rising global cholera outbreaks to climate crisis

Cholera outbreaks worldwide are deeply linked to climate crisis, a World Health Organization official has said after a meeting of a key advisory group on immunisation.

"I think we do have to acknowledge the cholera outbreaks that are ongoing are deeply linked to climate change in emergency situations, conflict situations, and we have raised the alarm on cholera," said O'Brien. She said immunisation programs have shown that resilience to diseases is at the heart of responding to new pathogens,"in particular pathogens like we've all just experienced, the COVID disease.She said the SAGE group had recently previewed new tuberculosis vaccines and several TB vaccines are in the pipeline to prevent adolescent and adult disease.

She also said the biggest impediment to access to vaccines is not disinformation, which was prevalent at the height of COVID, but the availability of such medicines in some areas.

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