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Speedy vaccination campaign helps stop cholera outbreak in Niger

The first intervention was to deploy the vaccine as close to the population as possible

"What I experienced with this disease is terrible. I saw death at close range." Amadou Elh Mamoudou counts himself fortunate. The 35-year-old survived a cholera outbreak in his village of Maradi, in south-central Niger, one of the areas most affected by the outbreak between March and December 2021. Once recovered,…