Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — September 20, 2024 —1500 words
United Nations World Health Organization it is again, pushing Climate Change as the root of all evil:
Here it is claim:
“Amount cholera death reported globally last year a 71 percent increase in deaths by 2022, while the number of reported cases increased by 13 percent. Most of the increase is driven by conflict and climate change, the WHO report said. (New York Times)
Let’s look at the statistics:
and where Will this cholera outbreak happen in 2023?
I have added country names for all the countries that experienced it more than 100 cholera deaths. (For comparison, New York City alone has more than 100 people walk death in 2023.)
(One oddity is Afghanistan – which the WHO reports has more than 200,000 cholera cases, and only 101 deaths.)
The World Health Organization released an annual report titled: “Cholera, 2023 – World Health Organization” (.pdf).
Important quotes include:
“In 2023, a very large outbreak, > 10 000 suspected and confirmed cases per country, reported by 9 countries on 3 continents (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia. and Zimbabwe).
“Conflict, climate changelimited investment in development and population displacement due to emerging and re-emerging risks all contributed to the increase in the number of cholera outbreaks. This trend indicates a lack of long-term development investment, especially in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The cholera outbreak shows that the sustainable development goals for WASH are not on track to meet the 2030 goals, even though the United Nations General Assembly recognized in 2010 that access to safe drinking water and sanitation is a basic human right.
“The surge in cases in southern Africa that started in 2022 continued until 2023, with Malawi’s outbreak increasing (32 530), while Mozambique (39 101), South Africa (1478), Zambia (4531), and Zimbabwe (14 148) all. reporting the highest number of cases in ≥5 years Note that, with some significant sub-national exceptions, these outbreaks have occurred in stable areas unaffected by long-term conflict climate change-A resilient WASH system can reduce the risk of ongoing outbreaks in the region.
All pages 14 WHO the report only mentions climate change as the second public discussion above. What WHO means when he says “climate change” bad weather conditions – there is no change in the local or regional climate – usually too much rain causes flooding – which is common in East Africa.
Cholera is caused by “People living in places with unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation, and inadequate hygiene are at the highest risk of contracting cholera. “Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.“”People usually get cholera from drinking water or eating food that contains feces from people who have cholera. The disease can spread rapidly in areas where sewage and drinking water are not properly treated. … Cholera cannot be spread from person to person or from casual contact with someone who has cholera.” ( CDC )
In plain English, when human waste (feces) gets into drinking water sources, cholera can and does come out. Cholera does not (usually) spread from person to person like diseases like the flu or the common cold.
And, it is true that underdeveloped countries experience floods, they can deal with sanitation infrastructure (human waste management) and drinking water infrastructure. Unfortunately, in many areas, there is no proper sanitation and no clean drinking water supply. The absence of such infrastructure means that people use dug latrines and hand-dug water wells or collect water from rivers and lakes.
The NY Times article made the claim: “The spread of cholera in southern Africa has been driven by catastrophic weather events, including floods and droughts.“This reference is to another NY Times article that provides no evidence for the claim, only this: “The damage is linked to increasingly violent storms, vaccine shortages, and poor water and sewer infrastructure, public health experts say.“
And we have two real major contributors to cholera outbreaks:
1. Poor or non-existent clean drinking water and inadequate or non-existent sewage infrastructure
2. Lack of cholera vaccine (coupled with lack of pubic health delivery infrastructure).
The third major contributor is population displacement due to conflictwhich pushed people into refugee camps and overcrowded cities.
The “vicious storm” that has no evidence of no effect on our world map above shows the cholera outbreak. North Africa Monsoon 2023 (.pptx file) was ‘above average’ but not catastrophic, just a little wet. African Monsoon 2024 will not rain in most areas:
The cholera outbreak map itself is little evidence against the “caused by climate change” claim. Haiti occupies 1/3 of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, the other 2/3 of the island is the country of the Dominican Republic. Haiti has had a major cholera outbreak, while the Dominican Republic has not. They show the island, weather and climate. But Haiti is poorer, has no central government and tends to be lawless, especially in the cities. The Dominican Republic is also poor but not as poor as Haiti. They have an operating democracy and a more-or-less reliable, if flawed, civil service.
Sudan, a predominantly dry country, is one of the worst hit, with a very high Case Fatality Rate. Sudan sees floods during the monsoon season, regularly as clockwork, and this can be seen in the African Monsoon image above – with a wide swath of more rain in the middle of the country.
“Flooding is an annual challenge in Sudan in August and September. Around that time every year, the monsoon rains flow into the Ethiopian Highlands and flow down into the Blue Nile and the White Nile. As the rivers meander north through Sudan and South Sudanfloods often blow up riverside communities.”
“The annual flood happened again in 2024. But this time, heavy rains also fell in the northern part of the country, causing devastating flash floods in areas that do not normally receive runoff.” (source)
Armed conflict has affected the country’s economy and its ability to respond to humanitarian needs – this means limited health services such as vaccinations and limited or no repair of sewage and clean water infrastructure.
In conclusion, this is why Sudan floods during the rainy season:
The flow of the Victoria Nile – the Upper Nile, the southern end of the Nile – is mainly controlled by dams in Uganda (shown in white on the map to the left) and the GERD Dam in Ethiopia. Almost all of the rain that falls in the annual monsoon in the western part of the Horn of Africa flows into Sudan, a country torn by civil war.
Poverty – at all scales from personal, family, national, and regional – makes the region vulnerable to cholera outbreaks when bad weather or conflict forces people to flee their homes.
Bottom line:
Cholera outbreaks are not caused by Climate Change. There is no evidence of climate change in cholera outbreak areas.
Cholera is caused by its presence Vibrio cholerae, bacteria, in drinking water sources (sometimes in food made from tainted water or food washed in tainted water). It is caused by contamination of drinking water with human feces. Contamination of drinking water with human feces (such as bacteria) is the result of poor or no safe drinking water and waste handling infrastructure (infrastructure created by the UN WHO as WASH).
Any interference from civil society in areas where there is not enough clean safe drinking water and proper sewage handling infrastructure can cause cholera outbreaks: including weather (floods, severe drought) – armed conflict (or even the threat of armed conflict), breakdown of normal civil governance.
All of this is compounded by the international shortage of cholera vaccine and the difficulty of delivering and administering the vaccine in cholera-affected areas.
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Author’s Comment:
As always, the United Nations World Health Organization using the language of the climate crisis as demanded by the enforced UN narrative that everything bad is caused by Climate Change. Any unexpected weather is claimed as evidence of Climate change – even normal weather for the area.
Weather, to be expected or rare, not Climate Change. If Sudan or other areas of Africa that are normally dry become, within a few decades, a rainforest or some major change in the Köppen climate type, that will be climate and environmental change. Even so, these changes will not cause cholera – cholera is not caused by the type of climate.
The UN and all related agencies are the main providers Climate Crisis Propagandafeeding fuel to the fire spread by US National Public Radio, UK BBC, and Australia ABC and some international climate propaganda news cabals.
Weather is not climate, disease is not caused or spread by climate change.
Thank you for reading.
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