Kathmandu, Sept. 26 -- Nepal on Thursday received 550,000 doses of anti-cholera vaccine from the Unicef and the World Health Organisation.

Of the 1,018,100 doses the organisations committed to supply for the containment of the cholera, which has been spread since the first week of August in Birgunj Metropolitan City, and adjoining local units of Parsa and Bara districts, the remaining doses will arrive on Friday.

"We received 550,000 doses of cholera vaccine today [Thursday]," said Dr Abhiyan Gautam, chief of the Immunisation Section at the Family Welfare Division under the Department of Health Services. "The remaining doses of the vaccine will arrive on Friday."

Cholera is a highly infectious disease that causes severe diarrhoea and v...