The French authorities have come in for criticisms over the failure to provide access to drinkable water to prevent a cholera epidemic in its overseas territory. The French government has reported an outbreak of cholera on the French Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte, which is struggling to contain the deadly epidemic.In its weekly update of Friday, June 21, 2024, France’s SPF public health agency announced that the cholera caseload in Mayotte is nearly 200. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection triggered by the consumption of food and/or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. …