Death Toll From Cholera in Malawi Now Surpasses 1,000
With a high case of a great magnitude counter to be in number as 30,621 and a death toll of 1000 persons Malawi that suffers the worst cholera outbreak in a far long year of 20.
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The death toll announced on Tuesday breached a grim milestone and surpassed the largest recorded outbreak, which killed 968 people between 2001 and 2002, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).Chiponda on Wednesday called on people to take extra care handling the bodies of cholera victims before funeralssource
Of much interest and attention should this be to the medical practitioners and the entire bodies for health including W.H.O of how mean this disease outbreak is. How could it be that in a country quite a huge number of this are been affected and to a large extent of 1000 dead. This calls for an immediate response.
In much analysis to this,it was found out that Lilongwe and Blantyre are the two cities with most cases of death and sick people suffering from cholera. Not taking this in a lighter way, cholera us responsible for diarrhoea and vomiting is of a high state in the country and studies have found out that it was caused by contaminated foods and water. In this case it should be sort out that their environments of living are dirty couple with the fact that they are sick of infrastructures with facilitates cleanliness.
The disease affects between 1.3 million and four million people worldwide each year, causing up to 143,000 deathssource.
Looking at how serious and life threatening is,it's of importance that the citizens of Malawi should maintain a good and standard personal hygiene. The health minister by name Khumbize Chiponda has warned those in charge of the burial of the deceased should protect themselves at all cost as they are exposed to contracting it even at the point of burial.
Reference
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/25/malawi-cholera-death-toll-passes-1000-as-outbreak-spreads