Jemen

[Schneemann]

Im kriegsgeplagten Land greift die Cholera immer mehr um sich. Eine erfolgreiche Bekämpfung der Seuche scheint angesichts des Krieges und des quasi kaum existierenden Gesundheitssystems (kombiniert mit dem Mangel an sauberem Wasser und einer sowieso schon desolaten Infrastruktur) nicht möglich. Aktuell sind bereits über 100.000 Menschen betroffen...

Cholera Ripping Through Yemen

More than 100,000 cases of the bacterial disease have been reported in the war torn country. [...] According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, as of Wednesday (June 7) the number of suspected cases of the acute, infectious diarrheal illness has reached 101,820, with 791 deaths. Forty six percent of the reported cases are in children under age 15, and 33 percent of the fatalities have been in people over the age of 60. [...]

Though the illness can be effectively treated by rapidly replenishing lost fluids and salts, the ongoing war has devastated Yemen’s health, water, and sanitation systems, making it difficult to deliver aid to patients. “Two years of war have plunged the country into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and put Yemen at risk of famine,” Sajjad Mohammed Sajid, Oxfam's Yemen Country Director, says in a statement. [...]

According to the WHO, 14.5 million Yemenis do not have regular access to clean water and sanitation, and medical supplies are entering the country at a third of the rate they were before the civil war started in March 2015.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.v...ugh-Yemen/

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