While COVID-19 dominates global headlines, Yemen, a country located on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East, has been experiencing years of multiple intense and extremely deadly disease outbreaks since 2015. The roots of Yemen’s health and humanitarian crises date back to the Arab Spring … Read more about Continued Catastrophe in Yemen: A War-Torn Country Plagued with Multiple Infectious Diseases
Yemen: A Man-Made Cholera Outbreak
Yemen’s cholera outbreak has deep roots in the country’s civil war; warring factions have destroyed sanitation infrastructure and blocked access to critical medical and humanitarian supplies. Cholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by the ingestion of bacteria present in water and food … Read more about Yemen: A Man-Made Cholera Outbreak
