According to Philippe Barboza, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cholera team lead, there have already been 100,000 cholera cases and 1,300 fatalities this year.
According to preliminary data, there were 810,000 and 5,900 recorded deaths in 2024, which is a significant rise over 2023. Due to poor official reporting, these figures were underestimated. Unfortunately, this cancer was now spreading to nations like Namibia and Kenya where it had not previously existed, even though it shouldn’t be there in the twenty-first century. In several nations, the case fatality ratio exceeded one percent.
For instance, the death rate was more than 4 percent in Angola, where Dr. Barboza had recently returned. Its rapid spread to neighbouring nations and other sections of Angola remained extremely worrying. In 2025, Angola accounted for 36% of all cases worldwide. Rapid deployment teams were sent out by WHO and its partners, who also set up facilities and provided personnel training.
According to Dr. Barboza, 12,000 cases of severe cholera have been documented in Myanmar since July 2024. Conflict and climate change have made matters worse on a global scale. However, Haiti had little money left over to address its own cholera outbreak. He added that WHO had 5.6 million treatment doses available for emergency responses at the end of March. Because demand was still quite high, more vaccine production growth was required.
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