Cluchey for State Rep. Today when I got home and pulled my mail out of the box, I immediately took note of a large campaign flyer among the envelopes. Automatic eye roll. I hate the big glossy flyers, as do most of us.Before I tossed it in the recycling bin, I noticed it had my […]
Lebanon has received its first batch of cholera vaccines as part of the international effort to help curb the spread of the life-threatening disease in the country amid an ongoing outbreak, Health Minister Firas Abiad announced.The 13,440 doses .
The outbreak has reached Beirut, but authorities say most cases remain concentrated where it started in the northern town of Bebnine, where health authorities have set up an emergency field hospital
The international group coordinating emergency vaccines recommends administering one dose instead of two to combat the “dire shortage” of cholera vaccines worldwide.
BEIRUT: Lebanon took delivery on Monday of its first vaccines to combat a worsening cholera outbreak together with sharply worded criticism of the crisis-hit country’s crumbling public health infrastructure from donor nation France. By Sunday, cases of cholera a disease typically spread through contaminated water, food or sewage stood at 1,447, with 17 deaths, since the