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Antibiotic resistance has contributed to millions of deaths worldwide. Research suggests that any bacteria can develop antibiotic tolerance, and possibly resistance, when pushed to their limits.
Cholera has persisted longer in Africa largely due to worsening hygiene and sanitation situations in urban areas.
Nigeria needs a multisectoral approach to break its annual cholera epidemic.
Water at informal settlements, where sanitation and waste management facilities were absent, had high bacteria levels.
Cholera kills fast, and outbreaks are common in war-torn regions and after natural disasters where clean water is scarce. A new strategy to prevent cholera infections is a ‘cocktail’ of live virus.
771,945 have been infected.
Many states in Nigeria are reeling from cholera outbreaks. They need better health and sanitation infrastructure to disrupt transmission of the bacteria which cause the disease.
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Chief Research Scientist and Director, Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Public Health Physician and Senior Lecturer, College of Medicine, University of Lagos
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University
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Research Associate of Molecular Microbiology, Tufts University
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Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, University of Ibadan
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Associate professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Ph.D. Candidate in Microbiology, Cornell University
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
