{"id":166827,"date":"2017-05-08T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/yemen-cholera-outbreak-kills-25-people-in-a-week-who\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:49:48","slug":"yemen-cholera-outbreak-kills-25-people-in-a-week-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/yemen-cholera-outbreak-kills-25-people-in-a-week-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen cholera outbreak kills 25 people in a week: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"article-text\"><br \/>\n<span id=\"midArticle_start\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-prime\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">SANAA<\/span> A cholera outbreak in Yemen killed 25 people this week, the World Health Organization said, as two years of war continues to wreak havoc on the impoverished country&#8217;s health and sanitation system.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"midArticle_1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The deaths from the diarrheal disease which is carried in food and water tainted by human faeces are among 1,360 cases that the United Nations agency reported since April 27. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some severe cases can kill within hours unless treated with intravenous fluids and antibiotics. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(This) is extremely alarming. We are facing a reactivation of the cholera epidemic,&#8221; Nevio Zagaria, the WHO&#8217;s representative in Yemen, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cause is that there is two years of war in Yemen. There is a huge impact on the infrastructure, the electricity power is on and off, the water pumping stations are not functioning regularly and this has an impact on the quality of water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"article-divide first-article-divide\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A previous outbreak subsided last winter, Zagaria said, and the country has experienced a total of around 27,000 cases including 130 deaths during the conflict.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s conflict pits the Iran-allied Houthi movement and elements of the military against the Saudi-led military coalition backing the internationally recognized government.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_7\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"article-divide second-article-divide\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Largely stalemated in nationwide battlefronts, the war has plunged millions into poverty, displaced millions of others and killed more than 10,000 people.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. said a child aged under five dies of preventable causes every 10 minutes in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_9\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A dispute over control of the central bank has also left most public sector salaries in Sanaa and other Houthi-run northern lands unpaid since October.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"article-divide third-article-divide\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Street cleaners have gone on strike for their wages, leaving mountains of garbage cluttering main boulevards.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_11\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, hospitals are strained by low supplies and cash-strapped staff who in some cases can barely afford transportation to work.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_12\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Women and young children, crumpled in pain from the diarrhea, sat on mattress laid in the hallway of a crowded Sanaa hospital.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_13\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been lying here since 7:30 in the morning and watching death and suffering. No one came to give me any treatment, not even a needle,&#8221; lamented patient Ali al-Hamzy.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_14\" \/><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting By Reuters TV; Writing by Noah Browning and Tarek Fahmy, editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_15\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA A cholera outbreak in Yemen killed 25 people this week, the World Health Organization said, as two years of war continues to wreak havoc on the impoverished country&#8217;s health and sanitation system. The deaths from the diarrheal disease which is carried in food and water tainted by human faeces are among 1,360 cases that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}