Health emergencies are on the rise in Africa, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, there were 213 public health outbreaks that the pan-African public health agency was monitoring, which is up from 166 in 2023.
The leading killer was cholera, with more than 3,700 reported deaths, followed by measles, which reportedly claimed about 3,200 lives.
When looking at suspected cases, measles led and cholera followed with more than 234,300 and 204,100 suspected cases, respectively.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
