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Cholera in Malawi

Cholera has 4 WHO-tracked outbreak events in Malawi between 2002 and 2025.

Cholera · Malawi · 4 WHO events across 4 calendar years (2002–2025).

Event log

Year DON ID ICD-10 ICD-11
2025 DON2928 A000 1A00
2023 DON2796, DON2793 A000 1A00
2022 DON2784, DON2776, DON2729 A000 1A00
2002 DON0624, DON0589 A000 1A00

Annual cadence

Year Events
2025 1
2023 1
2022 1
2002 1

Most active year: 2025 with 1 event.
Quiet years with no events: 20.

Position within the disease

  • Malawi is rank #17 of 79 for this disease.
  • The country sits in the WHO AFR region.
  • Last reported event: 2025 (1 year ago).

Regional peers (AFR)

37 countries in this region report this disease. Median event count: 3.

Country Events
Congo Democratic Republic of the 11
Burundi 8
Tanzania United Republic of 8
Zimbabwe 7
Mozambique 7
Nigeria 6
Kenya 6
Cameroon 6

How this disease ranks among Malawi’s threats

Cholera is rank #1 of 6 diseases reported by Malawi to the WHO. The full country profile is at the Malawi Hub.

Outbreak Events

4

First Reported

2002

Latest Reported

2025

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Country

Malawi • AFR