New Cholera Outbreak as Rainy Season Begins, in Yemen

LONDON (Reuters) – Yemen’s rainy season is likely to lead to another wave of cholera, putting millions at risk in the war-torn country, which still has one of the world’s worst outbreaks, scientists warned on Thursday.
More than 1 million suspected cholera cases have been reported in Yemen since 2016, killing more than 2,000 people.
The rainy season runs from mid-April until the end of August.
The daily number of cholera cases increased 100 times in the first four weeks of last year’s rainy season, spreading the disease across the country, the study said.
Fascism was exacerbated by the Saudi-led war that destroyed Yemen’s health services and water supplies, displaced more than 2 million people and pushed the country to the brink of famine. The embargo imposed by Saudi Arabia for years on the country’s main ports and ports has led to severe shortages of medicines.
According to the United Nations, about 22 million of Yemen’s 25 million people need humanitarian assistance