Category: Cholera

Cholera reaches South Sudan’s second-largest city, UN says

The United Nations says South Sudan’s cholera outbreak has reached the country’s second-largest city, as the number of cases nationwide rises beyond 5,500. The U.N. humanitarian agency said Friday that cases of the sometimes fatal gastrointestinal disease have been confirmed in Malakal, which has been ravaged by the country’s three-year civil war.

‘A nightmare:’ UN chief urges help for Somalia hunger crisis

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, right, stands as Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed addresses the media in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Guterres is conducting high level talks including with Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, to start of what he calls an emergency visit to highlight the country’s famine crisis.

More than 100 die from hunger in Somalia

Somalia’s Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Haire, says 110 people have died from hunger in a single region in the past 48 hours amid a severe drought. The figure for the south-western Bay region is the first official death toll announced during the crisis.

Guterres mulls new plan against cholera in Haiti

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked all the 193 UN member states to inform him by March 6 if they intend to make voluntary financial contributions to the efforts to carry out a new UN plan to tackle cholera in Haiti, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here Friday. Under the new approach, the United Nations is intensifying support to the Haitian government in building sound water, sanitation and health systems — the best long-term defence against cholera and other water-borne diseases, Dujarric said.

Post-flood dangers still lurk

This is because the muddy waters leave in their wake health threats brought by water- and vector-borne diseases such as respiratory tract infection, gastroenteritis and even leptospirosis. While the Health Department has been able to take steps to keep such threats from recent floods under control, Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam confirmed that there had since been three cases of leptospirosis in Kelantan.

Little River Band Members Reunite in Boca Raton for Benefit Concert

Fifteen-year-old Audrey Hayward, a sophomore at Atlantic Community High School, is orchestrating a genuine once-in-a-lifetime event. The young socialpreneur is reuniting former Little River Band guitarist Stephen Housden, currently living in County Cork, Ireland, with the band’s current bass guitarist and vocalist Wayne Nelson to perform an acoustic concert, “Save the Kids from Cholera”, on February 1, 2017 at 7:30 p.m., at Temple Beth El, Boca Raton, Fla.

Hansen makes presentation on wagon trains at SUP meeting

On Thursday, Jan. 5, Robert Hansen told a fascinating and little-known piece of LDS immigration history that has been largely lost, even by those who are descendants of those immigrants involved.After The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in Utah, the Perpetual Immigration Fund was established to help converts, especially … (more)