Seized by violence and teetering on the edge of famine, Yemen is grappling with another danger that threatens to outpace them both: cholera. “We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world,” international health authorities said in a statement Saturday. Anthony Lake, executive director of UNICEF, and Margaret Chan, director-general of the World
Health Organization, say that “more than 1,300 people have died — one quarter of them children — and the death toll is expected to rise.” They suspect that is because Yemen now has upwards of 200,000 cases to grapple with, and that number is growing quickly — by a rate of roughly 5,000 cases a day. READ MORE
