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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.