Cholera -- Yemen
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) [Doctors Without Borders] is closing most of its cholera treatment centers in Yemen, saying the outbreak there has peaked. More than 884 000 people are reported to have contracted the disease since April 2017, and another 2184 have died. MSF said the outbreak was not over, but that cases had decreased significantly. Only 567 new patients sought treatment at the medical charity's centers during the second week of October 2017, down from 11 139 in
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