Yemen cholera-related deaths reach 1500: WHO representative
Saturday 01/July/2017
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YEMEN TIMES Online \\ Saleh Ahmed
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As many as 246,000 were suspected to have been infected. Geographically, the infection covered 21 provinces or 281 districts.
The health ministry's spokesman said on Friday that cholera
infection is decreasing in Marib, Shabwah, Saadah and Mahrah, four government-controlled
provinces, and is increasing in militia-controlled parts primarily Taiz .
The outbreak is at its worst in Taiz, the province under
years long siege by the Houthi militants. In other provinces health crews are
denied access by the coup militia, health officials maintain.
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