Cholera Resurgence
A wave of outbreaks driven by conflict, floods and broken water systems.
Severity score
28.1
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Cholera has resurged across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Haiti, Yemen and parts of South Asia. Outbreaks follow displacement, flooding and collapsed sanitation, and the global oral cholera vaccine stockpile has repeatedly run dry.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
30Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
36People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
10Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
6Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
72Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.