Cholera, a centuries-old disease that continues to plague vulnerable communities, remains a major global and national public health concern, experts have warned.
They made the observation during a media roundtable with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River State Council, organised by a Non-Governmental Organisation, Cochrane Nigeria, in collaboration with the Institute of Tropical Diseases Research and Prevention, Calabar, Cross River State.
One of the resource persons, Ekong Udoh, a Pediatric Gastroenterologist at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, said that cholera continues to claim tens of thousands of lives annually despite being preventable.