Clean water - no cholera.
Clean air - no covid.
Clean info - no disinformation.

Seit Juli 2024 registrierte die WHO Tausende Fälle von akutem Durchfall, einem möglichen #Cholera-Vorläufer, in Teilen des ehemaligen Burma. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1188099.myanmar-unklarheit-ueber-cholera-epidemie.html

This is the room I'm trapped in for the next week while participating in a #clinicalTrial for a potentially revolutionary #cholera vaccine called #PanChol invented here at Brigham & Women's hospital (#BWH) in #Boston. I'll basically be doing my regular job all week while helping save lives.
I'm in isolation because if I were to shed the vaccine and somebody else picked it up from me it could cause a false cholera outbreak panic.
I'll be posting about my experience under #PanCholLiveToot. #AMA!

CBC: Cholera cases explode after extreme rains fueled by climate change in Africa https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/cholera-wwa-africa-1.7360685 #cholera #Africa #ExtremeRainfall #ClimateEmergency

#Polio in #Gaza, #Cholera in #Sudan, deadly and devastating #floods in #Nigeria and #Bangladesh, brutal killings in #Pakistan, #Germany and #Palestine (including but not limited to #Gaza), #hunger and #misery across the continents and so many wars that don't seem ever to end, while the #greed of the #rich appear to be limitless.

How to still have hope for this generation?

@palestine

Urgences, choléra: Mayotte est toujours plus une zone d’exception

Petite éclaircie à #Mayotte, encore précaire: le nombre de cas de #choléra baisse enfin. Mais l’accès à l’eau potable, la clé pour juguler l’épidémie, est toujours très difficile. Tout comme l’accès aux soins, largement entravé.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/120724/urgences-cholera-mayotte-est-toujours-plus-une-zone-d-exception

After reading and posting about #ExtremeWeather in #Mexico, I wondered about extreme weather in #Africa -- which doesn't get as much press in the Western Media.

Africa's #cholera crisis worse than ever

Voice of America
28 May 2024

"Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical #storms, #floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent's worst outbreaks of cholera.

"In southern and East Africa, more than 6,000 people have died and nearly 350,000 cases have been reported since a series of cholera outbreaks began in late 2021.

"#Malawi and #Zambia have had their worst outbreaks on record. #Zimbabwe has had multiple waves. #Mozambique, #Kenya, #Ethiopia and #Somalia also have been badly affected.

"All have experienced floods or #drought - in some cases, both - and health authorities, scientists and aid agencies say the unprecedented surge of the water-borne bacterial infection in Africa is the newest example of how #ExtremeWeather is playing a role in driving disease outbreaks.

"'The outbreaks are getting much larger because the extreme climate events are getting much more common,' said Tulio de Oliveira, a South Africa-based scientist who studies diseases in the developing world.

"De Oliveira, who led a team that identified new coronavirus variants during the COVID-19 pandemic, said southern Africa's latest outbreaks can be traced to the #cyclones and floods that hit Malawi in late 2021 and early 2022, carrying the cholera bacteria to areas it doesn't normally reach."

Read more:
https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/274386790/africas-cholera-crisis-worse-than-ever

Die Insel #Mayotte im Indischen Ozean gilt als ärmstes Departement #Frankreich|s, ist aber immer noch wohlhabender als die benachbarten Komoren. #Cholera https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1182227.infektionskrankheiten-cholera-fordert-todesopfer-auf-mayotte.html

À Mayotte, le spectre du choléra plane sur le «plus grand désert médical de France»

Alors que l’épidémie de #choléra flambe dans les Comores voisines, #Mayotte connaît ses premiers «cas autochtones» de la maladie. L’extrême précarité, le manque d’accès aux soins comme de personnel médical font craindre une flambée épidémique. Le tout dans le contexte sécuritaire de l’opération gouvernementale «Mayotte #PlaceNette» lancée mi-avril.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/010524/mayotte-le-spectre-du-cholera-plane-sur-le-plus-grand-desert-medical-de-france

Die #Cholera ist seit einigen Jahren wieder auf dem Vormarsch. Hohe Fallzahlen und eine gestiegene Sterblichkeitsrate machen vielen Ländern zu schaffen. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1181310.globale-gesundheit-schnelltests-gegen-die-cholerapandemie.html

Mehr als 90 Tote bei Schiffsunglück vor der Küste von Mosambik

Vor der Küste von Mosambik ist ein Fischerboot mit 130 Menschen an Bord gesunken. Sie waren vor einer Choleraepidemie geflohen. Laut Seefahrtbehörde wurde das Boot möglicherweise von hohen Wellen getroffen.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/mosambik-schiffsunglueck-fischerboot-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

From 2021:

#NativeAmerican tribe in #Maine buys back island taken 160 years ago

The #Passamaquoddy’s purchase of #PineIsland for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘#LandBack’ campaigns for #IndigenousPeoples in the US

by Alice Hutton
Fri 4 Jun 2021

"The advert painted an idyllic picture of White’s Island.

"For $449,000 you could buy 143 acres of forests with sweeping views of the rugged shoreline of Big Lake in Maine, on the east coast of the United States. “[It’s] a unique property … steeped in history … with only two owners in the last 95 years,” wrote the real estate agent from privateislandsonline.com.

"In fact, #KuwesuwiMonihq, or #PineIsland, is its original name, and it technically has just one true 'caretaker'; the Passamaquoddy: a small tribe of 3,700 Native Americans who had lived there for at least 10,000 years.

"It’s a spiritually important place for the tribe, filled with graves from devastating #smallpox, #cholera and #measles outbreaks caused by #WhiteSettlers.

"In 1794 it was officially granted to the tribe by Massachusetts for their service during the revolutionary war. But after 1820, when Maine became its own state, colonialists changed its title, voiding the treaty. In the 1851 census there were 20 Passamaquoddy living there, in 1861 there were none.

"By 2021, they had not only lost all but 130,000 acres of their original 3m. They hadn’t stepped foot on Pine Island in 160 years.

“'The land was stolen from us and it’s been every chief’s goal ever since to return it,' said chief William Nicholas, 51, leader of the tribe’s Indian township reservation for the last 11 years, who spotted the advert on a shop noticeboard on 4 July last year.

"In March, with a grant from conservation charities, the tribe raised $355,000, and finally bought the island back."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/04/native-american-tribe-maine-buys-back-pine-island
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/04/native-american-tribe-maine-buys-back-pine-island

WHO besorgt wegen Mangels an Cholera-Impfstoffen

Seit einigen Jahren steigt die Zahl der Cholera-Fälle weltweit rasant an. Um Ausbrüche zu verhindern, braucht es Impfstoff. Dieser wird jedoch nur von einer Firma hergestellt - und die kommt mit der Produktion nicht hinterher.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/cholera-impfung-102.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

The world is so low on #cholera #vaccines that there’s essentially none for #Haiti.
Cholera is a disease of poverty and the vaccine does not have long-term action. It is used by rich people to make their excursions to poor places safer and by the WHO et al. to ‘ring fence’ outbreaks. Which is not currently possible in Haiti.
Cholera outbreaks in the 21st century are mostly due to societal collapse, as in Haiti. This is a signal. the world has much more collapse than anyone anticipated.

Keine Cholera auf Kreuzfahrtschiff vor Mauritius

Nach einem Cholera-Verdacht auf der "Norwegian Dawn" haben die mauritischen Behörden Entwarnung gegeben. Passagiere an Bord dürfen das Schiff demnach am Dienstagmorgen verlassen.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/kreuzfahrtschiff-cholera-entwarnung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de