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WHO addresses cholera outbreak in Yemen
LEAD IN:A cholera outbreak has gripped war-torn Yemen.The Al-Sabeen Maternity and Children Hospital in Sanaa has seen a rise in cases among children.STORY-LINE:In the past few days, eight cases have been discovered in the Al-Sabeen...
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Haitians now face deadly cholera threat
Those who survived the falling trees and furious floods when Hurricane Matthew pummeled the southwest region of Haiti last week now face another deadly threat: cholera. The wreckage left behind by the Category 4 storm has created the...
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CLEAN : After the hurricane cholera decimates Haitian victims
Cholera is spreading at lightning speed in the remote mountain village of Randelle just two weeks after the passage of powerful Hurricane Matthew
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CLEAN: Cholera death toll rising in Zimbabwe
CLEAN: Cholera death toll rising in Zimbabwe
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ONLY ON AP Dirty job why cholera kills in Haiti
The men strip off their clothes, wrap themselves in rags and plug their nostrils with tobacco to hide the stench. They squeeze into a cramped outhouse with a reeking pit to scoop buckets of human excrement with their bare hands. It's...
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Dirty job shows why cholera still kills in Haiti
The men strip off their clothes, wrap themselves in rags and plug their nostrils with tobacco to hide the stench.They squeeze into a cramped outhouse with a reeking pit to scoop buckets of human excrement with their bare hands.It's just...
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CLEAN : 115 dead as Yemen cholera outbreak spreads: ICRC
A cholera outbreak in war torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with an influx of patients the International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday
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VOICED : Yemen cholera outbreak spreads amid conflict
Rebel authorities in Yemen's capital have sounded the alarm over a spreading cholera outbreak that has killed dozens in the war torn country and international relief agencies have warned of a catastrophic humanitarian situation
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Sanaa street vendors removed amid cholera
Yemeni authorities on Sunday oversaw the removal of stalls of street vendors, waste and stagnant water to fight a cholera epidemic that has killed over 1,700 people since the end of April, according to the United Nations. The campaign...
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CLEAN : Yemen famine risk rising as cholera diverts resources: UN
Aid groups have pulled resources from the fight against malnutrition to battle cholera in Yemen raising the risk of famine as they struggle to find funds a UN official said Thursday
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CLEAN : Yemen: Sanaa residents react to cholera outbreak
Six weeks into the second cholera outbreak in less than a year at least one patient checks in at Sanaa's Sabaeen hospital every 60 seconds leaving staff unable to cope
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CLEAN : CARE chief says Yemen situation a shame on humanity
The head of anti poverty NGO CARE International on Saturday denounced the humanitarian crisis in war torn Yemen which is also suffering from a cholera epidemic as an absolute shame on humanity
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CLEAN : Cholera spread continues to increase in Yemen (WHO)
The spread of the cholera outbreak in Yemen continues to increase the World Health Organisation said during a joint presser with UNICEF in Sanaa on Saturday
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UN confronted over cholera outbreak in Haiti
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST: ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYPort-au-Prince - 22 June 20171. Close of Haitian and United Nations flags flying side-by-side at Toussaint Louverture International...
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Thousands infected in Yemen cholera epidemic
Collapsing in the street and constantly vomiting, some of the Yemeni villagers barely make it to the tiny health centres where doctors spread sheets in the backyard and use trees to hang bags of IV fluids for patients.
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No cholera cases for Hajj pilgrims so far
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No cholera cases have been reported among pilgrims in Mecca or any of the holy sites, according to Saudi officials.
After an outbreak of the disease in Yemen, there were fears it could spread during...
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UNICEF director calls for ports to be reopened for aid deliveries
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UNICEF's Middle East director has welcomed a vaccine delivery to Yemen but says more aid is desperately required.
The supplies were flown into the country yesterday - the first such delivery since the...
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Huge cholera vaccination programme underway in Bangladesh
Doses of an oral cholera vaccine have arrived in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar and were being housed in UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) cold storage on Sunday.
UNICEF launched the second largest cholera vaccination...
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CLEAN : Saudi gave 66.7 million dollars to fight Yemen cholera: official
Saudi Arabia said on Monday that it had donated a total of 66,7 million dollars to combat the cholera epidemic in Yemen
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CLEAN : Rohingya camps: hand washing lessons to prevent cholera
With fears of a cholera outbreak among the nearly one million Rohingya living in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh volunteers there are spreading awareness about the importance of washing hands before eating food and after...
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Campaign in camps to immunise for cholera
UNICEF launched on Tuesday its second largest ever cholera vaccination drive, after Haiti in 2016, with 650,000 doses of the vaccine being given to Rohingya refugees aged one and above.
Hundreds of Rohingya men, women, and...
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CLEAN : Floods in Kinshasa trigger rise in cholera cases: MSF
Floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa have triggered a rise in cases of cholera says MSF's emergency coordinator
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CLEAN : Kinshasa mobilises against cholera epidemic
Kinshasa residents in the Luka camp district are taking action against cholera exacerbated by major water distribution and drainage problems
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Health workers report rise in cholera cases in Yemen capital
The escalation of Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen could lead to a new major outbreak of cholera which "may be worse than before," a spokesman for the Yemeni Ministry of Health said on Saturday.
Youssef Al-Hadhery said...