The World Health Organization (WHO) is putting its new stockpile of oral cholera vaccines to use for the first time. Some 140,000 people in refugee camps in war-torn South Sudan are expected to receive the vaccine by the end of March. There is no cholera in South Sudan at the moment, but the impoverished country has been considered at risk since fighting broke out between the government and opposition forces in December. The vaccines will be administered by Doctors Without Borders.
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