Cholera making a comeback worldwide after years of decline : UN experts.

UN health experts have warned that cholera, a 19th-century disease, may be making a 'devastating' comeback after years of decline.

In a new alert, the World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that more countries now face outbreaks, increasing numbers of cases are being reported and the outcome for patients is worse than 10 years ago.

'The pandemic is killing the poor right in front of us,' Jerome Pfaffmann Zambruni, Head of UNICEF's Public Health Emergency unit, said in a statement.

Echoing the bleak outlook, WHO data indicates that by May last year, 15 countries had reported cases, but by mid-May this year 'we already have 24 countries reporting and we...