The emergency global stockpile of cholera vaccines is empty with all available doses for this month already allocated to countries battling major outbreaks, two United Nations agencies told Reuters. The rest of this year will see a predicted shortfall of at least 50 million doses between demand and supply, a UNICEF official added, as cases continue to surge worldwide. “The stockpile is empty,” said Philippe Barboza, cholera lead at the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.N.’s health agency.
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The World Health Organization has published new figures on the seventh cholera pandemic. Data is incomplete due to the wide differences between countries epidemiological capacities.