Preventative cholera vaccination resumes as global supply swells: WHO

Dire vaccine shortages amid a surge in cholera cases forced a halt to preventative immunisation efforts in 2022, and a move to a one-dose strategy from the usual two in outbreak emergency responses. But the WHO, along with the UN children's agency UNICEF and the Gavi vaccine alliance, announced Wednesday that the global supply had now increased "to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventative campaigns". "Global vaccine shortages forced us into a cycle of reacting to cholera outbreaks instead of preventing them.