The United Nations confirms 58 cases of cholera and 47 cholera-associated deaths across war-torn Yemen in the past two weeks, the second such outbreak in a year.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says laboratory testing had confirmed the highly contagious infection in 10 governorates across Yemen, where less than half of the country’s medical facilities are functional two years into a deadly war between government forces and Huthi insurgents.
A Yemeni child stands outside the family house which was destroyed several months ago in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition at a slum in the capital Sanaa, on March 12, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)
Another 2,301 suspected cases were identified in governorates including Sanaa, home to the country’s capital, where more than 30 percent of the cases were diagnosed. Cases were also reported in governorates in the north, south and along the Red Sea coast, OCHA says.
Cholera, a highly infectious diarrhoeal disease, is contracted by ingesting contaminated water or food. If not treated within hours, it can become fatal.
–AFP
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