Cholera -- Yemen
Yemen is currently in the midst of a cholera outbreak that, by the WHO's latest count, has killed 2167 people since the end of April 2017 and is suspected to have infected 841 906. In June 2017, as the disease killed one person an hour and the WHO deemed its spread "unprecedented", the International Coordinating Group [ICG] -- the body that manages the global stockpile of emergency cholera vaccines -- decided to deploy one million doses of the vaccine to Yemen for urgent use.
The plan was
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