The World Health Organization's emergencies chief says the agency could have acted faster and sent more vaccines to fight a massive, deadly surge of cholera cases in war-battered Yemen this year. India and countries in sub-Saharan Africa face long-term challenges to fight cholera. Yemen had been set to receive a million doses of cholera vaccine over the summer but the government opted not to take them. "Could WHO and the cholera-specific partners have scaled up more quickly the case-management work, and could we have tried to mobilize more doses for cholera vaccine given the very limited supply globally of cholera vaccine? But WHO and its partners acknowledged that major problems remain in the fight against cholera, including the poor surveillance for it.

Source: ABC News October 03, 2017 15:31 UTC