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Dr. Firdausi’s study has contributed to total change by thinking about how the world can meet the challenge of cholera.
American philanthropist Bill Gates has Bangladeshi scientist Dr. Firdausi Qadri as a hero on the court and in the fight against the world’s longest pandemic: cholera.
In a YouTube video and blog post on October 6, Microsoft co-founder said, “For more than 25 years, Dr. Qadri has been one of the few people to have advocated for an affordable vaccine for entire communities against cholera epidemics. “
While we are all targeted by the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s simple for the world’s longest pandemic, cholera,” Gates wrote on the blog of his official Gatesnote website.
For more than two hundred years, deadly diarrhoeal diseases in spaces without white water or sanitation have killed millions of people.
The existing cholera pandemic, the seventh in the world, began in 1961 and spread from South Asia to Africa and America. Every year, cholera epidemics spread around 4 million people worldwide, resulting in up to 130,000 deaths.
However, an affordable, effective and safe oral cholera vaccine is proving to be a game changer in the fight against this forgotten disease.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of international cholera cases fell by 60% in 2018, although in 2019 there was an increase in cases, the total number of cholera deaths decreased by 36%.
This breakthrough dr. Firdausi Qadri’s lifelong paintings.
Oral cholera vaccine
In 2011, Dr. Firdausi and his team at the Bangladesh International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research and Research (icddr, b) conducted a feasibility examination of a new, more oral cholera vaccine, Shanchol.
The study, which was conducted in association with the Bill Gates Foundation, showed that a reasonable vaccine can be an effective tool to prevent the spread of cholera in poor urban settings, offering other people more than 50% coverage against the illness.
Dr. Firdausi’s study, the largest essay of its kind, has contributed to a total change in the way we think about how the world can meet the challenge of cholera.
“You can have water, sanitation, education, smart homes, and others won’t have cholera. But until that happens, you have to prevent misery. You have the disease,” Dr. Firdausi said. ” And the vaccine. “it’s an exclusive solution. “
In 2013, WHO helped create a pool of oral cholera vaccines to prevent and prevent outbreaks. Since then, more than 60 million doses have been sent worldwide.
In Bangladesh, the arrival in 2017 of approximately one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in overcrowded camps has raised considerations about a cholera epidemic. In collaboration with the government, Dr. Firdausi led a vaccination program that helped prevent an epidemic.
“If this vaccine is not carried out, there would be chaotic conditions,” Dr. Firdausi said. “We were able to save them a primary epidemic and primary deaths. “
These successes have contributed to new optimism in the fight against cholera.
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