UN declared more than 200 thousand people with cholera in Yemen
The disease has already claimed the lives of over 1,300 people, a quarter of whom are minors.
The United Nations Health Agency reported that more than 200,000 people in Yemen have become ill with cholera. Many of them are children.
Director of UNICEF Anthony Lake and head of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan said that it was "the worst outbreak of cholera in the world." Every day, doctors register about five thousand new cases. Cholera has already claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people, a quarter of whom are minors.
The cause of the epidemic, according to the UN, is that in a war-torn country, 14.5 million people lost access to clean water.
It's sad....and it's not getting that much coverage.
Its not. I watch CNN and BBC everyday. I have come across the story only twice.
Its trageic and sickening that the world has lost its conscience!! My heat felt prayerrs to the innocent people who are suffeing in Yemen ! Where ae the hypocrits in the so called United Nations ( Silent )
To quote an old classic movie "Either,they don't know,they don't show or they don't give a fuck"
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Dividends of war. How sad! Innocent children suffer. How can we help them?
What is happening in Yemen isn't a dividend of war, it is the result of a clueless world population accepting everything they are told and justifying to themselves that the deaths of thousands in Yemen cannot be prevented and is in some way justified. Same goes for famine, poverty etc. The comfortable life we lead in the west is possible due to the blood and misery of innocents in poorer parts of the world. Things would change tomorrow if more were aware how the world works and held those to account responsible but at the end of the day we don't.
Well said! I've been enlightened. Thanks
It would not surprise me at all if Cholera was deliberately introduced in Yemen as it was in Haiti by the UN. The UN are part of the problem, not the solution. Yemen has been under attack for years yet the UN does nothing. Same goes for Syria. What a joke
thanks for speaking up about this... I found steemit isn't too political but the issue of Yemen needs our collective attention !