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27
May
2017

Major cholera outbreak accelerates

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📅 27 May 2017 📍 Yemen

WHO reported a rapidly expanding cholera outbreak amid damaged water and health systems, unpaid public-sector salaries and restrictions on imports. The outbreak’s scale reflected the interaction of conflict, infrastructure collapse and public health conditions.

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Yemeni patients and health workers

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World Health Organization

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