World's Worst Cholera Outbreak - Launched Sept. 13, 2017 - Full multimedia experience: audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - War torn Yemen is facing the ''world's worst cholera outbreak'', the United Nations declared this month. Over 1,700 people have died since late April from the highly contagious bacterial infection, which can kill within hours if left untreated. There are more than 320,000 suspected cases of cholera in Yemen and on average 5,000 new cases per day. The UN has placed blame for the outbreak on all sides in the country's ongoing conflict. In 2015, Saudi Arabia and its allies launched an air campaign aimed at reversing Houthi military gains and backing Yemen's UN recognized government. Two years of conflict have left more than 10,000 people dead, and wounded tens of thousands and displaced millions more. According to a new analysis by 'Save the Children,' more than a million malnourished children are living in areas of Yemen hit hardest by a cholera outbreak.
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August 26, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - A toddler is comforted by the mother after receiving treatment for cholera in a hospital. The weekly number of reported new cholera cases in Yemen has declined by one third since late June according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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August 26, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - A young child is treated for cholera in the hospital. The cholera outbreak in Yemen remains the worst in the world.
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August 18, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - Children play next to an open sewage water in the Yemeni city. The conflict in Yemen has damaged much of Taiz and Yemen's water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure. The lack of sewage management and waste-water treatment poses a serious health threat, and has contributed to the spread of cholera in the country.
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May 30, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen, Cholera affected patients are treated in the Republican hospital in the city. Yemen is currently facing a major health crisis due to a resurgence of cholera, after the initial outbreak in October 2016. The most recent outbreak has caused many casualties in 14 Yemeni governorates, with the large number of cases recorded in the rebel-hold Yemeni capital of Sanaa, where a state of emergency has been declared by the health ministry of the Houthi government.
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August 13, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - A giant trash pile sits in the middle of a busy main street. The war taking place in the country since March 2015 has caused to the destruction of the country's infrastructure, the deterioration of hygiene and sanitation conditions, the lack of waste collection in major cities, as well as a deep humanitarian crisis, with millions of people being affected by famine and malnutrition and being cut off from clean water.
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May 30, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - Cholera affected patients are treated in the Republican hospital in the city. The most recent cholera outbreak has caused many casualties in 14 Yemeni governorates, with the large number of cases recorded in the rebel-hold Yemeni capital of Sanaa, where a state of emergency has been declared by the health ministry of the Houthi government.
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August 26, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - An old man is treated for cholera in a hospital in one of the few health care structures still available in the Yemeni city. As civil war in Yemen persists, a cholera outbreak in the country is spreading at an unprecedented rate, according to the United Nations, which says that there were more than 35,500 suspected cases of the disease reported in the past three weeks, and 361 deaths.
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May 30, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - Cholera affected patients are treated in the Republican hospital in the city. Yemen is currently facing a major health crisis due to a resurgence of cholera, after the initial outbreak in October 2016.
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August 15, 2017 - Taiz, Yemen - Yemen is facing the largest outbreak of cholera in the world, with nearly 2,000 people losing their life from the waterborne disease and nearly half a million suspected cases since April this year according to the World Health Organisation.
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