Oct 17, 2024WHO is collaborating closely with the Ministry of Health and partners, leveraging lessons from the last outbreakin October 2022 to contain the diseaseoutbreak and prevent its spread. The 2022-2023 outbreak was the first in Lebanonin over 30 years and was driven by economic decline and inadequate access to clean water and sanitation ...
The current cholera outbreakinLebanon was reported six weeks after a cholera outbreak was declared in neighbouring Syria. On 15 September 2022, WHO assessed the risk of the cholera outbreakin Syria and predicted that due to shortages of drinking water and a fragile and limited health system in Lebanon, there was a risk of a cholera outbreak ...
Oct 8, 2024A World Health Organization (WHO) official warned on Tuesday of diseaseoutbreaksinLebanon due to crowded conditions in displacement shelters and hospital closures as medics have fled Israel's assault. "We are facing a situation where there is a much higher risk of diseaseoutbreaks, such as acute watery diarrhea, hepatitis A, and a number of ...
Oct 11, 2024An official from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a potential outbreak of diseasesinLebanon due to the closure of hospitals and overcrowding in displacement shelters, amid ...
Oct 8, 2024"We are facing a situation where there is a much higher risk of diseaseoutbreaks, such as acute watery diarrhea, hepatitis A, and a number of vaccine-preventable diseases," said Clarke. Prior to the current escalation, Clarke pointed out, Lebanon's health system was already weakened, in large part due to the economic fallout of the ...
Oct 8, 2024Ian Clarke, WHO's Deputy Incident Manager for Lebanon, warned of diseaseoutbreaksinLebanon due to crowded conditions in displacement shelters and hospital closures as medics have fled Israel's ...
Oct 16, 2024Lebanon suffered its first cholera outbreakin 30 years between 2022 and 2023, mainly in the north of the country. The disease, which causes severe diarrhea, vomiting and muscle cramps, ...
Oct 8, 2024A World Health Organisation official warned on Tuesday of diseaseoutbreaksinLebanon due to crowded conditions in displacement shelters and hospital closures as medics have fled Israel's assault.
Oct 8, 2024A World Health Organization (WHO) official warned on Tuesday of diseaseoutbreaksinLebanon due to crowded conditions in displacement shelters and hospital closures as medics have fled Israel's assault. Israel's escalation of airstrikes across Lebanon since Sept. 23, followed by its ground offensive in southern Lebanon, has killed over 1,000 ...
Oct 8, 2024A World Health Organisation official warned on Tuesday of diseaseoutbreaksinLebanon due to crowded conditions in displacement shelters and hospital closures as medics have fled Israel's assault.