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WHO advises using 1 dose of cholera vaccine due to shortage

FILE - A hospital worker cleans inside a tent where people suffering cholera symptoms are treated at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. The World Health Organization and partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine _ instead of two _ due to a global vaccine shortage as outbreaks of the water-borne disease surge globally. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File) FILE - Patients with cholera symptoms sit in an observation center at a cholera clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. The World Health Organization and partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine _ instead of two _ due to a global vaccine shortage as outbreaks of the water-borne disease surge globally. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)