Al Mandhari Ahmed, Hajjeh Rana, Abubakar Abdinasir, Buliva Evans, Brennan Richard
Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Director of Programme Management, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
East Mediterr Health J. 2023 Jan 19;29(1):3-5. doi: 10.26719/2023.29.1.3.
Countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) are currently experiencing a resurgence of cholera. As of 31 December 2022, 8 of the 22 Member States in the region - Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen - were grappling with outbreaks of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea (AWD). More than 1 000 000 suspected AWD/cholera cases, more than 7500 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 375 cholera-associated deaths were reported across the region in 2022.
世界卫生组织东地中海区域(EMR)的国家目前正在经历霍乱疫情的卷土重来。截至2022年12月31日,该区域22个成员国中的8个——阿富汗、伊朗伊斯兰共和国、伊拉克、黎巴嫩、巴基斯坦、索马里、叙利亚和也门——正在应对霍乱和急性水样腹泻(AWD)疫情。2022年,该区域报告了超过100万例疑似急性水样腹泻/霍乱病例、超过7500例实验室确诊病例以及375例与霍乱相关的死亡病例。