{"id":4447,"date":"2025-04-24T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:06:16","slug":"cholera-claims-nearly-1000-lives-in-south-sudan-as-who-warns-of-worsening-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4447","title":{"rendered":"Cholera Claims Nearly 1,000 Lives in South Sudan as WHO Warns of Worsening Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>World Health Organization (WHO)<\/strong> has issued a grave warning over the escalating cholera outbreak in <strong>South Sudan<\/strong>, where the death toll has risen to nearly <strong>1,000<\/strong>, and confirmed and suspected cases have surpassed <strong>50,000<\/strong>. There are growing concerns that the actual number of cases may be even higher due to underreporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in <strong>Juba<\/strong> on Thursday, <strong>Dr. Agrey Kaijuka Batirigiza<\/strong>, WHO Representative in South Sudan, stated that the disease has now spread to <strong>more than 40 out of 79 counties<\/strong>. He noted that response efforts have included the vaccination of nearly <strong>5 million people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Batirigiza highlighted that cholera poses a <strong>severe threat<\/strong>, particularly in areas with <strong>weak healthcare infrastructure<\/strong>, <strong>limited access to clean water<\/strong>, and <strong>poor sanitation systems<\/strong>, conditions that greatly heighten the risk of transmission among vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local and international health bodies continue to ramp up efforts to contain the outbreak through <strong>awareness campaigns<\/strong>, <strong>vaccine distribution<\/strong>, and <strong>initiatives to improve access to safe drinking water<\/strong>. WHO has called for <strong>urgent support<\/strong> to scale up the humanitarian response and prevent further loss of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a grave warning over the escalating cholera outbreak in South Sudan, where the death toll has risen to nearly 1,000, and confirmed and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}