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  • Floods raise cholera risk even as cases decline in Africa: WHO

    Floods raise cholera risk even as cases decline in Africa: WHO

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    Brazzaville (Congo) – As weekly cholera cases in the affected African countries decline, heavy flooding due to seasonal rains and tropical cyclones in southern Africa are raising the risk of the disease spreading and threatening to undermine outbreak control efforts, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Newly-confirmed cholera cases fell to 2,880 in the…