Yemen Now Facing ‘Worst Cholera Outbreak In The World

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