A girl is treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The World Health Organization says a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed thousands of lives since April and is suspected of affecting 246,000 people. (AP/Hani Mohammed)
Yemen is suffering from the world’s largest cholera epidemic on record, Oxfam said on Friday morning.
(MEE) — Yemen is suffering from the world’s largest cholera epidemic on record, Oxfam said on Friday morning.
The organization documented more than 360,000 suspected cases of cholera in a three-month period, topping Haiti’s 340,000 cases after an earthquake in 2011.
Oxfam said that 2,000 people have died from the disease since the start of the outbreak in April.
(ANTIMEDIA) — According to Oxfam International, a leading charitable organization, Yemen is currently battling a cholera epidemic that is killing one person nearly every hour. Children are contracting the infection at a rate of one every 35 seconds.
And what can we do about it?
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
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