WHO: Deaths from cholera jump 71% worldwide
Voice of America
FILE - A cholera patient lies on a hospital bed in Harare, Zimbabwe, Nov. 19, 2023. The number of cholera deaths reported last year worldwide ballooned from the previous year by 71%, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
The number of cholera deaths reported last year worldwide ballooned from the previous year by 71% to more than 4,000, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
Youths dance to K-pop, popular Korean music, at a cultural house in Havana, Cuba, Sept. 7, 2024. Karla Pina Costa dances with other youths to K-pop at a cultural house in Havana, Cuba, Sept. 7, 2024.
A police officer stands guard as a health worker, right, administers a polio vaccine to a child in a neighborhood of Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2024.
FILE - Nurses speak inside a newly created mpox isolation ward at a hospital in Chennai, India, Aug. 27, 2024.
Musalia Piti, a herder, looks after his camels in Lekiji Village, Laikipia county, Kenya, on July 26, 2024. His family lost 50 cattle during a drought and decided to invest in camels. Lesian Ole Sempere, a Samburu elder, poses for a photograph outside his house in Lekiji Village, Laikipia county, Kenya, on July 26, 2024.
This picture courtesy of NASA taken on Sept. 6, 2024 shows Boeing and NASA teams working around NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test Starliner spacecraft after it landed uncrewed at White Sands, New Mexico.
FILE - Sergio Mendes performs at the Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, California, on July 20, 2016. The Brazilian musician died on Sept. 5, 2024.
FILE - A person wipes sweat from their brow at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, California, July 7, 2024. FILE - Visitors walk in the sunflower fields at Kasai Rinkai Park in Tokyo, Aug. 2, 2024, after Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began 126 years ago.
FILE - Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024, in New York. British prosecutors on Sept. 5, 2024, announced they were dropping two charges of indecent assault against the Hollywood movie producer.
FILE - A cholera patient lies on a hospital bed in Harare, Zimbabwe, Nov. 19, 2023. The number of cholera deaths reported last year worldwide ballooned from the previous year by 71%, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base streaks over the Pacific Ocean near Encinitas, California, April 1, 2024.
Parisa Imanirad, a scientist and cancer researcher, eats lunch alone at Spruce, an upscale restaurant in San Francisco, on Aug. 22, 2024.