Overview
From 1 January to 27 July 2025, a cumulative total of 382 718 cholera cases and 4478 deaths were reported from 31 countries across four WHO regions, with the Eastern Mediterranean Region recording the highest numbers, followed by the African Region, the South-East Asia Region and the Region of the Americas. No cases were reported in other WHO regions. In July 2025 (epidemiological weeks 27 to 30), a total of 67 705 new cholera and acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) cases were reported from 18 countries, territories, areas (hereafter countries) across two WHO regions, showing a 2% increase from June. The period also saw 624 cholera-related deaths globally, a 14% increase from the previous month.
In July 2025, the average stockpile of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was 4.1M doses, below the emergency stockpile level of five million.