It causes severe vomiting and diarrhea and, if left untreated, can lead to death.
According to doctors, cholera is spreading fast in the 15 displacement camps. Myca doesn’t have enough supplies of antibiotics or cholera vaccines to treat everyone.
So far, no country has pledged to donate clean drinking water, antibiotics, or vaccines. If bought in the United States, these things cost a lot more than tents. But if you give Myca money, they may be able to make it go further by buying their own supplies from sources outside the United States.
These are all good options.
Clean drinking water will help stop cholera from spreading. Vaccines will protect uninfected people from getting cholera, even if they can’t avoid using unclean water. And antibiotics will save lives among people who are already infected.
Remember, though, that providing clean water and medicine is not cheap in the United States. These things often cost much less in other countries. So if you give Myca the money, Myca can potentially make that money stretch further by buying its own supplies.
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In December 2013, a fruit bat infected a toddler in Guinea with Ebola. Within seven months, the virus had reached the capitals of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone and threatened to spread beyond West Africa to the rest of the world. The outbreak put U.S. officials on high alert and required a massive international response to avoid a global pandemic.
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