As Mozambique battles to control a fast-spreading cholera outbreak in the cyclone-hit central city of Beira, international assistance is arriving.
The number of cholera cases jumped to 271 over the weekend although no deaths from the disease had been reported.
The World Health Organization has said some 900,000 cholera vaccine doses are expected to arrive on Monday, with a vaccination campaign to start later this week. The first round-the-clock flights to deliver supplies from the U.N. World Food Program started Saturday and continued Sunday from King Shaka International Airport in Durban, South Africa, said Robert Mearkle, U.S. embassy spokesman."Separately from these shipments, the United States has provided nearly $3.
Beira's crowded, poor neighbourhoods are at particular risk. Children and other patients curled up on bare beds at a treatment centre in Beira, some with anxious parents by their side. They had intravenous drips to help replace fluids. As health responders stress the need for better disease surveillance, the United Nations' deputy humanitarian co-ordinator in Mozambique, Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, has said all cases of diarrhea are being treated as though they are cholera.
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