The U.N.
health agency says there are now more than 200,000 suspected cases of
cholera in an outbreak in war-torn Yemen, many of them children.
UNICEF
director Anthony Lake and World Health Organization chief Margaret
Chan said in a statement Saturday, "we are now facing the
worst cholera outbreak in the world,'' with an average of 5,000
new cases every day. The agencies say that more than 1,300 people
have died one quarter of them children and the death toll is expected
to rise.
The U.N.
says collapsing health, water and sanitation systems have cut off
14.5 million people from regular access to clean water and
sanitation, increasing the ability of the disease to spread.
In addition,
an estimated 30,000 local health workers have not been paid for
nearly 10 months.
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