Sanaa reels from ‘more than 200 cholera cases’
Mai 7, 2017
Preventable disease blamed for several deaths as civilians continue to bear the brunt of two-year war in Yemen.
More than 200 cholera cases have been reported in Yemen’s capital Sanaa as contaminated water and poor sanitation lead to a sharp rise in the transmission of the deadly disease.
Cholera is one of several risks to civilians, but a rapid advance of the disease would add a new dimension to an unfolding humanitarian disaster.
“In the last few days we’ve received more than 200 patients with cholera,” a nurse at the Jumhouri hospital in Sanaa told Al Jazeera on Saturday.
