Lives Lost: Doctor who battled disease outbreaks in Yemen

For five decades, Yassin Abdel-Wareth was one of a handful of epidemiologists in Yemen, traveling across the impoverished country to hunt for disease outbreaks that are as endemic as armed conflicts in the Middle East’s poorest nation.Abdel-Wareth told his brother: “The virus is in every house in Yemen.”“We will need 100 years to have someone like Dr. Yassin,” colleague Abdel-Salam al-Aqel said.