We’ve run out of cholera vaccines, WHO official says as disease surges

The UN health agency says global fatality rates are rising and there are around 30 countries around the world that have reported cholera outbreaks this year, about a third higher than in a typical year.

The global stockpile of cholera vaccines the World Health Organisation helps manage is “currently empty or extremely low”, a WHO official said on Friday amid a resurgence of the disease around the world.