A pharmacist in an International Medical Corps mobile health clinic dispenses medicine to a sick child in a remote village in Pakistan’s Sindh province after a flood devastated the country in 2010 and left mobile medics looking for signs of the deadly cholera bacteria. Cholera outbreaks often occur in places where flooding and poor sanitation is prominent. Nigeria has been experiencing one of its worst outbreaks in years as a result of these conditions.

First published in the September 15, 2021, 9:02 p.m. edition

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