The World Health Organisation (WHO) began distributing 9,00,000 doses of cholera vaccine on Tuesday in Bangladesh’s camps for Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar, as authorities rush to prevent a major outbreak of the deadly disease. More than 10,000 cases of diarrhoea have been reported in the past week alone, the WHO said. "There is a clear risk for cholera," said Dr N. Paranietharan, the WHO's representative in Bangladesh. Paranietharan said his organisation had the capacity to handle 70,000 cholera cases. As well as a handful of clinics, mobile teams are ready to go to inaccessible parts of the camps with oral rehydration salts that can save cholera patients if they can't get access to intravenous fluids.

Source: dna October 10, 2017 11:03 UTC