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Review
. 2022 Dec:84:104936.
doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104936. Epub 2022 Nov 14.

Cholera amid COVID-19: Call from three nations; India, Bangladesh, and Nepal

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Review

Cholera amid COVID-19: Call from three nations; India, Bangladesh, and Nepal

Abhigan Babu Shrestha et al. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2022 Dec.

Abstract

Covid-19 was a major pandemic of the 21st century that flinched away every individual worldwide. The extensive impact of this rapidly spreading deadly virus doomed the health care systems with the unexpected wave wreaked havoc leading to a global health crisis. It has been a high burden on the functioning existing medical system, overloads health professionals, disruption of the medical supply chain. The economy of the nations has been at losses with a significant slowing down in revenue growth over the past 2 years. After taking its toll, drawing away other diseases including cholera. The three developing nations; India, Bangladesh and Nepal, are now at the verge of facing an outbreak of Cholera. It is not surprising to hear cholera in this nation but the fact that its negligence due to Covid-19 pandemic and monkeypox along with a crumbled health system due to the pandemic has made these nations vulnerable for health crisis. Along with this three nations, cholera has made its way to different parts of this globe and it is high time that attention must be drawn towards it as mismanagement could even cause life.

Keywords: Bangladesh; Cholera; Covid-19; India; Nepal.

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The authors disclose no conflict of interest.

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