Malawi asks more vaccines to battle cholera outbreak ...Middle East

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MALAWI: Malawi is asking the UN for more cholera vaccines, fearing heavy rains could worsen an outbreak of the water-borne disease that has so far claimed 128 lives.The impoverished southern African country has recorded 4,420 cases since March, one of its highest tallies in a decade.“We have requested for more vaccines,“ Storm Kabuluzi, director of preventive health services at the ministry of health, told AFP late Wednesday.The extra doses are needed for the central and northern regions, where the disease has spread from “traditionally cholera-prone” areas in the south, Kabuluzi said.The number of cases has almost tripled since August, according to government figures, and 24 out of 28 distr

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