A child receiving an oral cholera vaccine from a health worker during a vaccination campaign in Dhaka on Wednesday (Feb 19). Health workers fanned out on Wednesday in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka to vaccinate more than a million people as part of a start of a global campaign to eliminate cholera in the world by 2030, officials said. - AFP
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Wednesday (Feb 19) kicked off a drive to vaccinate more than a million people against cholera, which infects tens of thousands a year, as part of an international campaign to eliminate transmission by 2030.
The delta nation has sought to reduce the impact of the disease -- which causes acute diarrhoea and spreads through contaminated food and water -- through vaccines and by setting up a dedicated treatment hospital.
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