WHO updates August cholera figures for Nigeria, Sudan and South Sudan
The 2 October bulletin reports different case and death totals across the three countries and cautions that data are provisional and may be underreported.
The World Health Organization’s 2 October Weekly Epidemiological Record updated cholera reports through 30 August 2026. For August, it listed 10,807 cases and 62 deaths in Nigeria, 845 cases and 77 deaths in Sudan, and 975 cases and three deaths in South Sudan.
Cumulative reported totals from the start of the year through 30 August were 69,263 cases and 439 deaths in Nigeria, 2,887 and 247 in Sudan, and 14,190 and 122 in South Sudan. WHO says figures are provisional and may be affected by underreporting; the bulletin does not offer a causal comparison among countries.
A UNICEF account dated 1 October describes how rapid tests supplied earlier helped confirm cholera in a Gamboma household. It does not report a new case count.
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