Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 25 June 2024
… nearly 47,000 Afghans who have contracted cholera so far this year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). (…) At least 25 people have died of the disease so far in 2024 in Afghanistan, which has the highest number of cases in the world, according to a WHO report released on June 19.
Experts said a series of natural disasters, including floods that devastated swaths of northern and central Afghanistan in the spring and the country’s crumbling health-care system, are behind the sharp rise in cases.
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