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Cholera \u2013 A Political Challenge that Hits Africa Hardest<\/strong><\/p>\n By Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus<\/p>\n Cholera is not fundamentally a medical challenge, it’s political. The last outbreak of cholera in the United Kingdom was in 1866; the United States has not had an outbreak since 1911.<\/p>\n And yet today, outbreaks of cholera are raging in 32 countries, with more than 6800 deaths reported so far this year \u2013 already exceeding last year’s toll of 6000. And those deaths were a 50 percent increase…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Cholera \u2013 A Political Challenge that Hits Africa Hardest By Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Cholera is not fundamentally a medical challenge, it’s political. The last outbreak of cholera in the United Kingdom was in 1866; the United States has not had an outbreak since 1911. And yet today, outbreaks of cholera are raging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671814:29de17eb45bf4a3f72ada881f589c102:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7485,879,12693,7111,257,6378,254,881],"class_list":["post-211868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenge","tag-cholera","tag-hardest","tag-hits","tag-news","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671814:29de17eb45bf4a3f72ada881f589c102:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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