UN readies for possible cholera outbreak after Afghanistan earthquake

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Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ng-worst-earthquake-20-years-kills-1-000.html

Afghanistan braces for widespread CHOLERA following worst earthquake in 20 years: UN readies to prevent outbreak after half a MILLION cases of diarrhoea were linked to tremor that killed 1,000

UN humanitarian office said cholera outbreaks are common after earthquakes
Preparations are already underway to prevent an epidemic after the disaster
Villagers are still digging through the rubble with their hands to find survivors
By Jack Newman For Mailonline and Associated Press

Published: 11:11 EDT, 23 June 2022 | Updated: 12:21 EDT, 23 June 2022

Afghanistan could face a widespread cholera outbreak with half a million cases of acute diarrhoea already reported in the wake of yesterday's devastating earthquake.

The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) said preparations are already underway to avoid the epidemic following the powerful tremors which killed at least 1,000 people and destroyed hundreds of homes.

'Cholera outbreaks in the aftermath of earthquakes are of particular and serious concern,' OCHA said in a statement on Thursday. 'Preparations to avoid an outbreak are underway.'...

 

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After earthquake that killed 1,000, Afghanistan braces for cholera, disease outbreaks

Source: https://www.egyptindependent.com/af...anistan-braces-for-cholera-disease-outbreaks/

After earthquake that killed 1,000, Afghanistan braces for cholera, disease outbreaks
Story by Reuters
June 27, 2022

Kabul/Wor Kali, Afghanistan – Thousands affected by a deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan are in need of clean water and food and are at risk of disease, an Afghan health ministry official said on Sunday, days after a United Nations agency warned of a cholera outbreak in the region.

At least 1,000 people were killed, 2,000 injured and 10,000 homes destroyed in Wednesday’s earthquake, after which the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) warned that cholera outbreaks in the aftermath are of particular and serious concern.

“The people are extremely needy for food and clean water,” Afghanistan’s health ministry spokesperson Sharafat Zaman said, adding officials had managed medicines for now but handling those who had lost their homes would be a challenge.

“We ask the international community, humanitarian organizations to help us for food and medicine, the survivors might catch diseases because they don’t have proper houses and shelters for living,” he said...

 

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Source: https://pajhwok.com/2022/07/06/cholera-like-disease-spreads-in-zabul-killing-2-people/



Cholera-like disease spreads in Zabul, killing 2 people
Mukhtar Ahmad Amiri
6 Jul 2022 - 16:52

QALAT (Pajhwok): Dozens of people in two districts of southern Zabul province have been infected with a cholera-like disease and so far two individuals have lost their lives to the disease.

Dr Abdul Hakim Hakimi, director of Public Health Department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 80 people in Sewri and 60 in Daichopan districts have contracted the disease similar to cholera.

He said immediately after the spread of the disease, mobile health teams were dispatched to the two districts and they had started treatment of those infected.

According to him, diarrhea and vomiting are the acute symptoms of the disease...

 

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Afghanistan - Unknown disease kills 20 children in Helmand province (Media)

Unknown disease kills 20 children in Afghanistan's Helmand province


Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2022-07-13 15:16:27


LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The outbreak of an unknown disease has claimed the lives of 20 children in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, provincial director of information and culture Hafiz Rashid said Wednesday.

The infected children died over the past couple of days in Baghran district, the official said. "The reason for the outbreak of the disease could be drinking contaminated water."

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https://english.news.cn/20220713/df5f24edefc1436eb9b4a017a29b842c/c.html

 

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INCLUDING CHILDREN, CHOLERA KILLS DOZENS IN AFGHANISTAN

17:23 | Tuesday 12 July 2022

Shafaqna - Afghan media reported that dozens of people died of cholera in Helmand and Zabul provinces in southern Afghanistan.

The sources said that "at least 40 people died of cholera in Helmand and Zabul provinces in southern Afghanistan," adding that "among the dead were 15 children in Helmand province."

And she explained that, "in the past two days alone, 120 cholera cases were recorded in the southern provinces of Afghanistan."

He states that, "Cholera infection usually occurs through contaminated water or seafood, and the disease is accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea, which causes dehydration and circulatory failure."

https://ar.shafaqna.com/AR/317832/بينهم-أطفال-الكوليرا-تفتك-بالعشرات-في/

 

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180 infected with cholera admitted in hospital in Afghanistan's Kandahar

Thu, Jul 14 2022 03:07:24 PM

Kandhar, Jul 14 (IANS): At least 180 people infected with cholera have been admitted to Mir Wais Hospital in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar.

Up to "74 patients affected with the disease are from Shah Walikot district," Soorgul Nawzadi, a physician in the hospital, said on Thursday.

The disease earlier killed 20 children in the neighbouring Helmand province, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Nawzadi.

In Baghran district of the Helmand province, about 150 people have been infected with the disease, local people said

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Source: https://www.khaama.com/over-7000-pe...elated-deaths-in-northern-afghanistan-463273/


Over 7,000 People Contract Cholera with 12 Cholera-Related Deaths in Northern Afghanistan
By Saqalain Eqbal / in Afghanistan / on Thursday, 21 Jul 2022 02:50 PM

According to Taliban health officials in Jawzjan province of northern Afghanistan, 7,000 people have contracted cholera as a result of the disease’s spread in the province, and 12 more have died as a result.

They passed away before getting to the hospital on Wednesday, July 20, according to Abdul Ghani Samim, the head of the Taliban’s public health department in Jawzjan province.

According to Jawzjan health officials quoted by Bakhtar News Agency on Thursday, cholera disease has spread in the Jangal Arigh village in the Mardyan district of this province.

7,000 cases of cholera have reportedly been confirmed in Jawzjan up to this point, according to the provincial public health officials of which only 2644 people are reportedly being attended to at the moment.

In addition, as the weather warms and floods rise, the cholera disease has spread throughout the southern regions of Afghanistan...

 

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Source: https://english.news.cn/20220727/993e1b4b1f094ea4a1292f7c2257d84f/c.html

Cholera kills 7, infects over 667 in Afghanistan's Kandahar province
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2022-07-27 17:00:29

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 27 (Xinhua) -- At least seven children have lost their lives due to cholera outbreak and 667 others infected with the disease in less than a week in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a doctor in the province, Mohammad Daud Ayubi, said Wednesday.

"A total of 9,500 patients affected with diarrhea have been taken to the healthcare center, where 667 of them were diagnosed with cholera disease," Ayubi said...

 

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Afghanistan gripped by multiple disease outbreaks
ANI
10 August, 2022 04:19 pm IST


Washington [US], August 10 (ANI): Afghanistan is facing multiple disease outbreaks, including Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD), measles, Congo fever, dengue fever, and Covid-19, media reports said citing a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report.

The WHO report stated that there has been a substantial rise in acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) cases nationwide, Afghanistan’s local media portal Khaama Press said.

Almost over a number of 19,050 cases of AWD are confirmed in various provinces across Afghanistan, especially Kabul, Paktia, Khost, Paktika, Jawzjan Ghazni, Kandahar, and Zabul provinces.

All provinces are still reporting instances of measles even after a decline in occurrences. As per the report there are total 64,654 cases of measles across Afghanistan.

Congo fever, or scientifically Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), has also spread in different zones of Afghanistan particularly in 13 provinces in southern, south-eastern, eastern, and central regions, with 229 confirmed cases, with six associated deaths.

Afghanistan province of Nangarhar saw new dengue fever cases skyrocketing in July 2022.

In a bid to respond to the epidemics, medical emergencies, and natural disasters looming over Afghanistan in July 2022, WHO is reaching out to the country and providing resources and building up its capacities.

Another unfortunate event took place in Afghanistan when a 5.1 aftershock struck the south-eastern provinces of Khost and Paktika on July 18, 2022. This was in addition to the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck on June 22, 2022 which injured more than 361,000 people and claimed 1036 lives....

 

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Source: https://www.khaama.com/three-children-in-southern-afghanistan-succumb-to-cholera-disease-587495/


Three Children in Southern Afghanistan Succumb to Cholera Disease
By Saqalain Eqbal / in Afghanistan / on Sunday, 14 Aug 2022 02:55 PM /

In the wake of the cholera outbreak in the southern Afghan province of Zabul, three children died after contracting the disease, said the health officials in Zabul.

According to Abdul Hakim Hakimi, the Taliban’s director of the public health department for Zabul province, who spoke to the media on Sunday, August 14, three children passed away from cholera in the Akazi region of Zabul province.

According to him, this tragedy occurred on Saturday night in areas of Zabul province that were remote from the province’s capital since medical teams were not sent.

Health teams have reportedly been sent to the area to prevent the further transmission of cholera, according to the Taliban’s director of public health in Zabul.

This occurs while a number of disease outbreaks, including Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD), measles, Congo fever, cholera, dengue fever, and Covid-19, have been reported in Afghanistan recently by the World Health Organization (WHO).

These outbreaks, especially cholera has contributed to the fatalities spiking the cholera-related death toll in Afghanistan...