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tisdag, november 07, 2017

Cholera in Yemen — An Old Foe Rearing Its Ugly Head — NEJM

Click --> Cholera in Yemen — An Old Foe Rearing Its Ugly Head — NEJM: Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Cholera in Yemen — An Old Foe Rearing Its Ugly Head

" --- In September, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that there have been about 700,000 cases and more than 2000 deaths from cholera (in addition to the 10,000 other deaths caused by the conflict), and the epidemic had spread to all governorates and municipalities except one.1 Although the epidemic seems to be slowing again somewhat, 5000 suspected cholera cases were still being reported every day as of late September ---".

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