Yemen has been found to be at increased risk of third cholera epidemic says World Health Organization.

‘The cholera epidemic warning has come a day after the airstrikes in Hodeidah which hit a busy fish market and the entrance to the country's largest hospital, Al-Thawra.
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Dr. Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response said "We've had two major waves of cholera epidemics in recent years, and unfortunately the trend data that we've seen in the last days to weeks suggests that we may be on the cusp of the third major wave of cholera epidemics in Yemen," Dr. Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, told a UN briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.




Because of the constant war, many Yemenis have been weakened by malnutrition; these problems are now overlapping of disease outbreaks and war as the nation struggles with cholera and diphtheria.
Yemen has recorded More than 1.1 million suspected cholera cases since April, and nearly 2,300 deaths have been reported because of it.
Source-Eurekalert