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Good morning, good afternoon,
good day to everyone.
Today I'm going to talk
about cholera vaccine,
my experience of the
use of cholera vaccine
in Bangladesh and the
experience of icddr,b.
I'm going to talk not
only about the success,
but also, about the struggles.
I'm Firdausi Qadri, Senior
Scientist at icddr,b,
Infectious Diseases Division.
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On this slide, you
can see pictures of
dehydrated patients coming to
our hospital from six
to three years ago.
We can see people
lying down with
many IV fluids going
through them to
rehydrate them when they have
this very severe
dehydrating disease
which we call cholera.
I would like to talk about
the work on cholera,
especially that has been
carried out at icddr,b,
but also, other work from
our Mucosal Immunology
and Vaccinology
Department, MIVU, within
the infectious disease
division of the center,
and share it with our
friends globally.
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We are living in
a time of extreme
natural and manmade
turbulence, climate change,
pandemics, floods,
tornadoes, earthquakes,
tsunamis, humanitarian
conflicts, and so on.
We are facing many problems,
and we are sure
that in the future,
it will not be less,
and it might be more.
In a country like Bangladesh,
we have rising sea levels.
The prediction is
one million maybe
displaced by 2050, from
south of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has many rivers,
covered by the sea
and the rivers.
The salinity,
coastal inundation,
and storm surge
height is increasing.
We feel that it will
impact agriculture,
food security,
disaster management,
health, drinking water supply,
coastal infrastructure,
and most of all, the risk
of infectious diseases,
of which cholera is not the
least, but also, the most.
All this leads to
a lot of rainfall,
increase in temperatures.
Like last year in
Southern Bangladesh,
we had Cyclone Remal.
Then there's so much
salinity that people
are without drinkable
water everywhere.
This is the story of cholera.
Then people move from
villages to urban slums,
and there, the living
condition is worse.
There is less safe drinking
water, sanitation is missing,
and people come
down with diseases,
diarrhea, and of
course, cholera.
We have been carrying
out research at icddr,b
