Claim: In Yemen, world's worst cholera outbreak traced to eastern Africa.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: cases were no longer in a life-threatening situation. The cholera outbreak in Yemen gained global attention. The PBS article "Biggest challenge of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is making the world pay attention" and the Independent's article on "Yemen cholera outbreak set to be the worst on record" were two of many reports that drew attention to the magnitude of the crisis. Headlines highlighted that the outbreak was spiraling out of control and could potentially affect more than 1 million lives by 2018. Doctors Without Borders reported that a Saudi Arabian coalition airstrike struck a new Médecins Sans Frontières cholera treatment center

title: Yemen
text: is affecting 17 million people. The lack of safe drinking water, caused by depleted aquifers and the destruction of the country's water infrastructure, has also caused the world's worst outbreak of cholera, with the number of suspected cases exceeding 994,751. Over 2,226 people have died since the outbreak began to spread rapidly at the end of April 2017. In 2016 the United Nations reported that Yemen is the country with the most people in need of humanitarian aid in the world with 21.2 million. Yemen was mentioned in Old South Arabian inscriptions as "Yamnat". In Arabic literature, the term "al-Yaman"

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: this outbreak have not been paid their salaries for nearly 10 months." The outbreak is of an "unprecedented scale", according to the World Health Organization (WHO), one of the worst in recorded history. The cholera outbreak began in early October 2016. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers the outbreak to be unusual in its rapid and wide geographical spread. The earliest cases were predominantly in the capital, Sana'a, with some occurring in Aden. By the end of October, cases had been reported in the governorates of Al-Bayda, Aden, Al-Hudaydah, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij and Taiz and, by late November, also in

title: Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
text: cholera epidemic has begun in Yemen during the civil war. In July 2017, the United Nations Humanitarian Relief coordinator said that over 320,000 cases had been reported. He also blamed the epidemic on the war and on international forces supporting the combatants. As of October 2017, it was described as already the worst cholera outbreak in recorded history, with over 800,000 cases. Yemeni Crisis (2011–present) The Yemeni Crisis began with the 2011–12 revolution against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had led Yemen for more than three decades. After Saleh left office in early 2012 as part of a mediated agreement

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: in Abs, in northwestern Yemen. Doctors Without Borders reported that they had provided GPS coordinates to Saudi Arabia on twelve separate occasions, and had received nine written responses confirming receipt of those coordinates Note 1: Starting in December 2017, The World Health Organization began counting cases of cholera from 27 April 2017 onwards instead of from October 2016. This is resolved by adding 26 070 suspected cholera cases and 120 deaths from December onwards. Note 2: Starting on 8 November 2018, The World Health Organization began counting cases of cholera from 1 January 2018 onwards instead of from 27 April

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: deaths, were reported. By 24 June 2017, UNICEF and WHO estimated that the total number of cases in the country since the outbreak began in October had exceeded 200,000, with 1,300 deaths, and that 5,000 new cases a day were occurring. The two agencies stated that it was then "the worst cholera outbreak in the world". Approximately half of the cases, and a quarter of the deaths, were among children. As of 12 June 2017, the case fatality rate for the outbreak was 0.7%, with higher rates in people over 60 years old (3.2%). The serotype of "Vibrio cholerae" involved

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: is Ougawa. A total of 268 districts from 20 of the country's 23 governorates had reported cases by 21 June 2017; over half are from the governorates of Amanat Al Asimah (the capital Sana'a), Al Hudeideh, Amran and Hajjah, which are all located in the west of the country. On 23 June 2017, Saudi Arabia authorized a donation in excess of $66 million, while continuing its airstrikes and military operations in Yemen. By 4 July 2017, there were 269,608 cases and the death toll was at 1,614 with a total case fatality rate of 0.6%. From 27 April to 14

title: Cholera
text: year. It is difficult to calculate exact numbers of cases, as many go unreported due to concerns that an outbreak may have a negative impact on the tourism of a country. Cholera remains both epidemic and endemic in many areas of the world. In October 2016, an outbreak of cholera began in war-ravaged Yemen. WHO called it "the worst cholera outbreak in the world". Although much is known about the mechanisms behind the spread of cholera, this has not led to a full understanding of what makes cholera outbreaks happen in some places and not others. Lack of treatment of

title: Yemen
text: from rivers and lakes that isn't sanitary. Cholera is prominently found in contaminated drinking water, making the Yemeni people, especially children, the most prone to such a disease. There have been reported more than 815,000 suspected cases of Cholera in Yemen over the past three years, 60% percent of them being children. Cholera can be found in majority of Yemen, mostly concentrated in the cities closer to water. Cholera currently kills an estimated 95,000 people per year and infects upwards of 2.9 million people. Diphtheria has spread throughout Yemen infecting upwards of 1,300 people as of March 2018, 80% of

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: region around the port city of Hodeidah. Eight governates were reporting an increase in suspected cases. Since April 2017, 1.2 million suspected cases had been reported with 2510 deaths (a low case fatality rate of 0.21% suggested some non-cholera diarrhea). About a third of the suspected cases were children under 5 years of age. As of October 2018, 2980 cases were confirmed. In May, on oral cholera vaccine campaign was launched, but the shortages of vaccine and the ongoing conflict made delivery into all areas difficult. UNICEF and WHO attributed the outbreak to malnutrition and collapsing sanitation and clean water

title: Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
text: experts from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh to help train the response capacity of health care and laboratory workers case management and diagnosis. In Northern Iraq, the Syrian Civil War displaced many refugees into the Kurdistan. The refugee camps suffer from poor sanitation, which has led to cholera outbreaks in the region in 2007 and 2012. GOARN, as per the request of the Ministry of Health of Iraq for support and training in outbreak response, deployed a multidisciplinary team of six experts to the Northern Iraqian Dohuk and Erbil camps to assist with assessing the risk of

title: Human rights violations during the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
text: calling for a swift investigation. In October 2016, it was reported that a cholera outbreak was severely affecting many Yemenis. UNICEF supported struggling health clinics by supplying water, water purifiers, and hygiene kits. On 28 October, the World Health Organization announced that there were 1410 cases of cholera in 10 of Yemen's 23 governates. In July 2017, it was reported that the cholera epidemic was beginning to slow. As of late July 2017, it is estimated that the epidemic infected approximately 400,000 people. Of the 400,000 people over the three-month period, approximately 2,000 died. The fact that rubbish is not

title: 2012 Sierra Leonean cholera outbreak
text: have been successfully used earlier in 2012 by MSF in Guinea Bissau and by Partners in Health in Haiti. 2012 Sierra Leonean cholera outbreak , a cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone had caused the deaths of 392 people. It was the country's largest outbreak of cholera since first reported in 1970 and the deadliest since the 1994–1995 cholera outbreak. The outbreak has also affected Guinea, which shares a reservoir near the coast. This was the largest cholera outbreak in Africa in 2012. Abdulai Bayraytay, the spokesman of the Sierra Leonean government, stated that as of 1 October 2012 there were

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: August there were nearly 2,000 documented death cases from cholera. On 14 August 2017 the WHO updated the number of suspected cholera cases to 500,000. On 22 December 2017, the World Health Organization reported the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen had surpassed 1 million. After a decline to fewer than 1000 cases per month in the first half of 2018, WHO reported an increase beginning in September with 10,000 suspected cases per week. The WHO warned that a third wave of cholera might be underway that was related to Saudi air strikes in Houthi-controlled areas in the western

title: 2014–15 African cholera outbreak
text: 2014–15 African cholera outbreak Declared in June 2014, the West and Central African cholera outbreak as of January 25, 2015 claimed 1,683 registered deaths and over 91,361 reported cases with a reported case fatality rate (CFR) of 2% in 11 countries, which is 3 times more than in 2013. The case fatality ratio is high in the Sahelian area, equal or greater than 2%, especially in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger. Nigeria, Ghana and Democratic Republic of the Congo being the most affected countries with Ghana reporting its worst outbreak since 1982. In January 2015 the Greater Accra Region and

title: 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak
text: cholera", and 12 of the prisoners from the incident died in jail. In Malawi 104 deaths were recorded since January, making it the worst outbreak since 2001–02 where 960 people died. Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, DRC, and Ghana have had unrelated cholera outbreaks with between 10–100 deaths in 2009 as of February. After the 2008 epidemic was declared a national emergency, the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MOHCW) collaborated with several other departments, governments, and non-governmental organizations to create a Cholera Command and Control Centre. This Centre works to prevent cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe by addressing broader societal factors that

title: Tedros Adhanom
text: WHO election, stories surfaced about an alleged cover up of three possible cholera epidemics in Ethiopia in 2006, 2009 and 2011. The outbreaks were allegedly wrongly labelled as "acute watery diarrhea" (AWD)—a symptom of cholera—in the absence of laboratory confirmation of "Vibrio cholerae" in an attempt to play down the significance of the epidemics. UN officials said more aid and vaccines could have been delivered to Ethiopia if the outbreaks had been confirmed as cholera. The allegations were made by Larry Gostin, an American law professor, who was acting as an adviser to rival candidate David Nabarro from the UK.

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: Al-Dhale'a and Amran. By mid-December, 135 districts of 15 governorates had reported suspected cases, but nearly two-thirds were confined to Aden, Al-Bayda, Al-Hudaydah and Taiz. By mid-January 2017, 80% of cases were located in 28 districts of Al-Dhale'a, Al-Hudaydah, Hajjah, Lahij and Taiz. By the end of February 2017, the rate of spread in most areas had reduced, and by mid-March 2017, the outbreak was in decline. A total of 25,827 suspected cases, including 129 deaths, had been reported by 26 April 2017. The number of cholera cases resurged after 27 April 2017. During May, 74,311 suspected cases, including 605

title: 2016–18 Yemen cholera outbreak
text: systems due to the country's ongoing conflict. An ICRC worker in Yemen noted that April's cholera resurgence began ten days after Sana'a's sewer system stopped working. The impacts of the outbreak were exacerbated by the collapse of the Yemeni health services, where many health workers remained unpaid for months. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the UN pointed to the naval and aerial blockade and bombing campaign by the Saudi-led coalition as central causes behind the preventable cholera epidemic. From 27 April 2017 to 20 September 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) had partnered with 50 different

title: Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
text: in "crisis" or "emergency" food situations. In June 2017 a cholera epidemic resurfaced which was reported to be killing a person an hour in Yemen by mid June. News reports in mid June stated that there had been 124,000 cases and 900 deaths and that 20 of the 22 provinces in Yemen were affected at that time. UNICEF and WHO estimated that, by 24 June 2017, the total cases in the country exceeded 200,000, with 1,300 deaths. On 7 June 2018, it was reported that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had pulled 71 of its international staff