Thursday, 28 September 2017

PRO/EDR> Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update (106): Asia (Yemen) new record

Cholera -- Yemen
Yemen's 5-month old cholera crisis is now the world's largest outbreak since records began, Oxfam said today, 28 Sep 2017, as the number of suspected cases rose to over 755 000. The Yemen outbreak has overtaken the 754 373 suspected cases recorded in Haiti in the 6 years between 2010 and 2015. Over 2100 people have already died from cholera, and while the spread of cholera has slowed slightly, it is still spreading fast and at current rates of increase, the number of suspected cases would

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