Mozambique to begin Cholera vaccine drive today

Mozambique’s health authority says it will kick off a mass anti-Cholera vaccination campaign on Wednesday, following the delivery of nearly 900,000 doses on Tuesday.

Cholera is spread through human waste in the water supply.

The flood water itself is not the primary risk. Instead, the risk comes because the existing drinking water supplies having been damaged by the flooding.

“This cholera vaccine must be seen as complementary” to “individual and collective hygiene measures,” Mozambique’s National Health Institute Director Ilesh Jani has said.

People should try only to drink clean water, Dr Jani said, adding that “the health ministry and its partners has been distributing pure water and purifiers in communities.”