To avoid a deadly disease like cholera, it is important to know about it.

In this new year, there is a need to pay more attention to the measures to prevent deaths due to cholera.

What is Cholera? Its symptoms and how it spreads?

Cholera is a serious health problem, in which the physical strength of the person starts getting weakened due to which the person starts becoming weak very fast, it can be stopped by treatment soon, if it is not treated, the possibility of death increases. Cholera is generally caused by eating and drinking waste food, due to which the food is not digested quickly in the stomach and becomes the cause of disease.

Symptoms of Cholera:

Symptoms of cholera start appearing very quickly but sometimes it becomes difficult to explain this disease. Let us know what symptoms can be seen in it:

The common symptom of cholera is that the person starts becoming weak rapidly due to which his weight starts decreasing.

Due to this, excessive watery vomiting and diarrhea start occurring, which leads to problems like lack of water in the body and bloating, which can be very fatal if not treated quickly.

These could be the following reasons for the spread of cholera:

Cholera is a very dangerous disease, the main reason for the spread of cholera is the use of contaminated food and contaminated water. This happens especially in areas of poverty because there is lack of growth and nutrition and here people are forced to eat contaminated food. Due to contaminated food and contaminated water, this disease can prove fatal on a large scale.

To prevent serious diseases like cholera, it is very important to use pure water along with good and regular food and in case of such a problem, it is necessary to consult a doctor as soon as possible.

What measures are taken to treat cholera?

Good food, good water, sanitation, better care and community participation are very important to contain a disease like cholera.

Cholera is a disease which, if not treated quickly, can become very fatal in a short time.

Cholera is treated through the following factors:

Nutritional Modification: To prevent diseases like cholera, cholera patients are given a good food and nutritious diet, as we know that nutritious food helps in increasing the strength of the body.

Use of medicines: To prevent the outbreak of cholera, appropriate medicines and vaccines are used by doctors. Vaccination is more beneficial than oral vaccine to prevent cholera disease, however, due to lack of vaccine, it is not available to enough people. Vaccination facility is not available because due to this serious disease increasing all over the world, the demand for vaccine is increasing and there is only one manufacturer of the vaccine.

What measures does MSF take to prevent diseases like cholera?

Here are some of the measures MSF is taking to prevent cholera:

Cholera investigation: This helps in knowing from where the cholera patients are coming from, which can help the investigators to give priority to that place and better efforts can be made to stop the disease there.

Cholera Treatment Center: In places where cholera disease is spreading, investigators arrange special isolation wards so that more people can get medicine as quickly as possible and this disease can be stopped.

Water testing and sanitation: MSF tests water to ensure that it is clean enough to provide access to clean water to people, and the team also provides adequate access to toilets for people.

Where is the cholera outbreak currently being seen?

The news of the spread of diseases like cholera is coming from all over the world. At present, 16 countries around the world have declared the cholera disease active, which shows that many countries are troubled by this disease for a long time. And the outbreak of cholera is increasing in Southern Africa, data shows. The number of cholera cases has increased by 40 percent in 2023 and if we talk about last year, there have been more than 80 percent deaths. And in this new year of 2024, so far about 41000 cases are being reported, out of which 775 deaths are also included.

Zambia: The bulk of the cholera outbreak is coming out of this country where it was moderately prevalent since December 2023 but as of February 22, about 200,00 cases and about 750 deaths have been recorded, which is a huge number.

Mozambique: This country is being affected due to changes in climate and the most affected area in this country is considered to be Nampula, where about 3500 cases of cholera patients and 20 deaths are included in January this year.