The cholera outbreak in Yemen seems to be accelerating at an alarming rate with about 10,000 reported cases showing up each week.
Reports released from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday indicated there have been over 150,000 suspected cholera cases in the first eight months of this year, which is double the average rate.
Nearly two million malnourished Yemeni children are particularly vulnerable to cholera and health advisers are doing their best to educate parents on how to battle the disease.
“We enter people’s houses to educate them about hygiene, and to tell them if there is a case of cholera, they have to come to the hospital to be cured,” said health adviser Jamel Abdu Mohamed Abu Bakir. “If you keep them an hour, two hours at home, this hour may be fatal for him — an hour leads to death, half an hour can lead to death.”
The WHO plans on administering over 500,000 vaccinations in the three most vulnerable districts, with over 300,000 receiving the initial dose so far.
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