Overview

• Médecins Sans Frontières treated over 2,300 cholera patients in Darfur last week and recorded at least 40 deaths, calling it the worst outbreak in years.
• Khartoum health authorities began a ten-day oral cholera vaccine campaign targeting roughly 150,000 people to curb the rapid spread.
• Ongoing conflict and a collapsed health system are making it extremely difficult to detect new cases and deliver life-saving treatments.
• Widespread flooding and damaged water and sanitation infrastructure are accelerating transmission and leaving many without safe drinking water.
• Humanitarian organizations warn that without urgent scale-up of containment measures and water, sanitation and hygiene support, the epidemic will claim more lives.