The World Health Organization is concerned about the increasing number of cholera cases in the world

The World Health Organization said today, Wednesday, that the number of cholera outbreaks has increased around the world this year.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that during the first nine months of the year, 27 countries declared cholera outbreaks.

He pointed out that more than 10,000 cholera cases have been recorded in Syria alone during the past few weeks.

Meanwhile, two cases have been reported in Haiti, although it has been cholera-free for three years.

It is believed that the real number of injuries is much higher.

The World Health Organization did not address the estimate of the number of infections around the world.

In mid-September, the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention said it had recorded about 40,000 cholera cases in a month.

Tedros described this development as worrying, given that the problem is not limited to the increase in the number of cases of the disease, but because the deaths are increasing.

He said that the death rate this year is three times higher than the rate during the past five years, noting that cholera is spreading in places suffering from poverty and conflict, and in places where people are struggling to face the repercussions of climate change.

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