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Cholera kills 25 people in Yemen in single week: WHO
2017-05-09
[Iran Press TV] The World Health Organization (WHO) says cholera claimed the lives of 25 people in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
last week, several months after the outbreak of the infectious disease was declared in the war-torn Arab country.

"(This) is extremely alarming. We are facing a reactivation of the cholera epidemic," further said Nevio Zagaria, WHO's acting representative in Yemen, on Monday.

Back in October last year, the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
 agency reported that the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen had soared to 1,410, some three weeks after it announced the grim news of the cholera outbreak in country.

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is a fast-developing infection that causes diarrhea, which can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death in up to 15 percent of untreated cases.

Posted by:Fred

#17  Is Yemen in Minnesota?
Posted by: gorb   2017-05-09 17:32  

#16  Why do you think they have all of that chlorine to weaponize? Cleaning supplies and water purification...
Posted by: magpie   2017-05-09 15:51  

#15  maybe chemicals they use on each other are lethal to vibrio

They do have a fondness for throwing barrels of chlorine out of helicopters. Perhaps there is some method to this madness after all.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-05-09 15:21  

#14  The proverbial turd in the punchbowl. Literally*!

* - Joe Biden Approvedâ„¢
Posted by: Frank G   2017-05-09 15:17  

#13  Cholera can ONLY be caused by drinking water that people have shit in. That's what cholera IS.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2017-05-09 14:02  

#12  You mean WHO would like to get on on the action, AC?
Well, maybe chemicals they use on each other are lethal to vibrio
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-09 12:22  

#11  TW, I've always assumed that such things would harsh the narrative.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-05-09 11:29  

#10  I still wonder why Syria & Iraq don't have outbreaks of pestilence.

They do, g(r)omgoru. It's just that nobody bothers to break out those who died from bullets and bombs from those who died from illness and hunger.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-05-09 11:19  

#9  #5 I still wonder why Syria & Iraq don't have outbreaks of pestilence.

They got Islam. What more do you want?

All snark aside, this is an interesting question. One would expect outbreaks of war-related diseases like typhus.

In the case of cholera, maybe the drinking water comes from underground sources and the sewage ends up in surface water.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-05-09 11:16  

#8  learned not to drink where you shit
We foreigners learned to only drink liquor, from sealed bottles.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-05-09 09:52  

#7  Well there are a couple of vaccines for Cholera and in India they have had success by feeding victims high doses of pure water and sterilized fruit juices to keep the victims hydrated until the disease runs its course.
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352   2017-05-09 09:34  

#6  Maybe they finally learned not to drink where you shit.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-05-09 09:12  

#5  I still wonder why Syria & Iraq don't have outbreaks of pestilence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-09 09:04  

#4  Also not to be dicussed, due to the fact "all men are created equal:"

heritability - (noun)
The condition of being passed down through genes. RELATED TERMS miserliness innate gene epigenetics polygenic temperament trait sociocultural perinatal genotype human genome locus (noun). The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e., the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-09 08:35  

#3  But don't dare say "dirty people" or "failed culture." you rayciss bastid...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-05-09 08:23  

#2  The problem is, it seems to matter to some.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-05-09 05:57  

#1  Third world problems...
Posted by: Raj   2017-05-09 00:13  

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