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A World Health Organization official said on Friday that the global stockpile of cholera vaccines it helps manage is “currently empty or extremely low” amid a resurgence of the disease around the world.

Medical staff wait to treat patients at a cholera centre set up in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, March 29, 2019. Medical staff wait to treat patients at a cholera centre set up in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, March 29, 2019.

“We have no more vaccines. More countries are continuing to request and it’s extremely challenging,” said Dr Philippe Barboza, Team Lead for Cholera and Epidemic Diarrhoeal Diseases, at the World Health Organization.He was referring to an emergency stockpile held by the International Coordinating Group on vaccine provision that is managed by the WHO and other partners. Typically, it has about 36 million doses available a year.

 

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Oh just SHUT T F UP, already! Corporate Media’s job: Fêâr Mongering, as scripted by their handlers! TedrosTheGenocidalTerrorist PhalaPhalaBuddy

They are lying they want to stir panic buying of vaccine so that they make profit, which is their primary objective

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