Cholera

First mass cholera vaccination begins

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 11th, 2004

Health workers in Mozambique are carrying out the world's first mass vaccination against cholera in an attempt to reduce cases in one of the worst-hit areas, the U.N. health agency said January 14th.

The World Health Organization (WHO), the Mozambican Health Ministry and others are planning to vaccinate 50,000 people this month in the city of Beira, Mozambique's second-largest city. Two doses of the oral vaccine, given in successive weeks, should protect patients for at least a year.

Cholera is mainly contracted through people consuming contaminated food or water. Epidemics are linked to poor hygiene, overcrowding inadequate sanitation and unsafe...

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