Tag: cholera

Dhaka : Nearly 200 medical teams in Bangladesh on Tuesday began one of the largest cholera vaccination campaigns in history, which involved the administration of some 900,000 doses to Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazaar and in the southeast of the country. The campaign, the second largest oral vaccination ever after Haiti in 2016, was led by the Bangladesh Ministry of Health with support from the World Health Organisation and Unicef, and would be carried out in two phases, reports Efe. "In the initial phase, 650,000 people will be reached in the...