dufus Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 A Yemeni child with cholera symptoms received medical care at a hospital in Sana last week.CreditYahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency Cholera cases in Yemen could quadruple in the next month to 300,000, the regional director of Unicef said Friday, calling the spread of the disease in the war-ravaged country “incredibly dire.” Speaking by phone after visiting Yemen, the agency’s regional director, Geert Cappelaere, said he had never seen a cholera outbreak of that size in the country, which already is contending with the risk of a famine and a collapse of the health care system because of the war. Half the cholera cases in Yemen belong to children, Mr. Cappelaere said, and parents have little recourse because many hospitals and clinics are closed or lack supplies. Mr. Cappelaere, who was named Unicef’s director for the Middle East and North Africa last year, worked for the agency in Yemen from 2009 to 2012. This was his first trip since then back to the country, poorest in the Arab world. “We are responding to a major crisis without having the basics,” he said. “The reality is incredibly dire.” Cholera, a bacterial disease spread by water contaminated with human waste, causes potentially fatal dehydration if left untreated. It has been expanding at an alarming rate in Yemen for the past month, from a few thousand cases to roughly 70,000. Most areas of the country are affected, Mr. Cappelaere said. Unicef, also known as the United Nations Children’s Fund, has provided clean water to roughly one million people, rehydration kits and other medicine to help fight the outbreak. Like other aid groups, it has implored combatants in the conflict to pause so that more can be done. Mr. Cappelaere said Unicef was calculating that without significant intervention, “within a few weeks’ time” the number of Yemen cases could reach 250,000 to 300,000. “Cholera doesn’t need a permit to cross a checkpoint or a border, nor does it differentiate between areas of political control,” he said in a statement released by Unicef about his visit. Yemen has been convulsed for more than two years by a conflict between Houthi militants from the north of the country and a military alliance of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, which views the Houthis as proxies for its regional rival, Iran. About 10,000 people have been killed and millions displaced. Earlier this week the top relief official of the United Nations, Stephen O’Brien, told the Security Council that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen had been largely man-made. “If there was no conflict in Yemen, there would be no descent into famine, misery, disease and death — a famine would certainly be avoidable and averted,” Mr. O’Brien said. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/middleeast/unicef-yemen-cholera-saudi-war.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dufus Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 The Pentagon spent a billion dollars to create hundreds of bio laboratories around the world, Started by dufus, July 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 These terrorist saudis should stop bombing civilians in Yemen. fuckers don't even have army, they hire mercenaries like "BlackWater" to fight for them. and U.S president that clown sells more arms to them. both nations the sponsors of terrorism All Over The World! Now where is nikki haley? that bitch is shut up now, the U.N is shut up now. nobody has the balls to back those innocent civilians. they all just watch those children and women die... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 it's funny you don't put the blame on those people trying to overthrow the yemen government.... oh no you cant, your country is supporting them cuz they belong to the same religion than you and having them in power means spreading your influence in the area! and then you can here and blame dumb americans for being brainwashed when you are just no better than them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dufus Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 UN: Yemen unlikely to get cholera vaccine as first planned http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemen-cholera-vaccine-planned-48565940 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 13, 2017 Administrator Share Posted July 13, 2017 Some posts removed. If you keep abusing each other like this then there is no use allowing any news here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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