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  1. Mar 8, 2024 · The ancient disease of cholera is making a comeback in 2024 – but the world's supply of vaccines can't keep up. The global stockpile of cholera vaccines is empty. There are no doses in...

  2. May 2, 2024 · The global stockpile of the oral cholera vaccine — a supply whose needs are difficult to predict and fill anyway — has dwindled to nearly nothing after the Indian drug manufacturer that...

    • Ellen Ioanes
  3. Dec 12, 2021 · The rapid spread of the seventh cholera pandemic over Asia in the 1960s led to several large field studies that revealed that the traditional injectable cholera vaccines had poor efficacy, which led the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 1970s to stop recommending cholera vaccination.

    • Jan Holmgren
    • 2021/12/12
    • 10.1093/infdis/jiab423
  4. Apr 11, 2024 · April 11, 2024. Doses of cholera vaccine are being given to patients as fast as they are produced and the global stockpile has run completely dry, as deadly outbreaks of the disease continue to...

  5. Although rarely in use, the injected cholera vaccines can be effective for people living where cholera is common. While being ineffective in young children, in such areas they can offer some degree of protection in adults and older children for up to six months.

    • Dukoral, Vaxchora, others
    • Inactivated
  6. Mar 9, 2024 · As cholera continues to cause large outbreaks, the global stockpile of the oral cholera vaccine is still entirely depleted. Talha Burki reports. 2022 was a bad year for cholera. The disease returned to Syria after an absence of 15 years and crossed the border into Lebanon, where it had not been detected since 1993.

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