Gabriela Emanuel
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Canada has had over 5,000 measles cases in the past year.
Jarbas Barboza directs the Pan American Health Organization.
He says it is now the only country in the Americas in which measles is endemic.
In the past, both Brazil and Venezuela lost measles elimination status and then were able to regain it with vaccination campaigns and active strategies to find cases.
has had significant measles outbreaks since January.
Nevertheless, the country continues to make significant efforts to control its current outbreak and remains firmly committed to achieving elimination again.
In the past few weeks, Angola has seen an almost 700 percent increase in cholera cases, with about 1,000 new cases last week.
Kids represent a third of those cases.
Cholera is both preventable and treatable, but it requires good water infrastructure and rapid medical attention.
Yap Boom of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says across the continent,
cholera's return is worrying health experts.
He expects things could get worse as many countries head into their rainy season.