Cholera Ravages Yemen

War-torn Yemen is now being convulsed by cholera.
Over the past six weeks, more than 124,000 suspected cholera cases have been reported. To put this in perspective, there were only 172,000 cases reported globally to the World Health Organization for all of 2015. To be fair, many cholera cases go unreported each year, but by any standard the current outbreak in Yemen is huge.
“And geographically it is expanding,” says Mohamed El Montassir Hussein, the country director for the Internat