Cholera outbreak adds to war-torn Yemen's misery (WHO)

yahoo news UK ^ | 5/12/17 | Raf Sanchez

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A cholera outbreak in Yemen is gaining momentum, adding to the misery of the Arab world’s poorest country which is already wracked by war and on the brink of famine.

Around 51 people have been killed since the outbreak began in late April and the rate of deaths has been increasing in recent days,
according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Yemen’s healthcare system has been decimated during two years of fighting and medicines are in desperately short supply,
partly because of a blockade enforced by the Saudi-led military coalition that supports Yemen’s government.

Around 7 million of the country’s 27 million people are facing “emergency” shortages of food, according to the UN, just one level below all-out famine.
Two-thirds of the population does not have access to clean drinking water.

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The WHO reported 25 deaths from cholera on May 8 but the number had spiked to 51 by May 11 and experts fear the outbreak could spread and become increasingly deadly if it is not contained.

Around 2,752 suspected cases of cholera have been detected in Yemen since late April, according to the WHO.

“WHO is in full emergency mode to contain the recent upsurge of suspected cholera cases,” said Dr Nevio Zagaria, the WHO’s representative in Yemen.

“We are very concerned with the re-emergence of cholera across several areas of Yemen in the past couple of weeks.
Efforts must be scaled-up now to contain the outbreak and avoid a dramatic increase in cases of diarrhoeal disease.”

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Infectious Disease ping- Cholera (Yemen)

Already 25 deaths, and infection rose steeply, doubling in four (4) days.

[brucedickinson]

oh that’s a shame. wake me when something happens that directly affects America

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Gee...that’s a shame....

[Tax-chick]

Try a drop of bleach in the water.

[VietVet876]

Lick the pages of your korans. Surely alla provides nourishment there for his faithful.

[trisham]

It’s a backward country. Some people, particularly the illiterate, may be uneducated regarding the importance of purifying their drinking water. It’s also very dry, so water is scarce.

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