Yemen Crisis: 66 People Died of Diphtheria, WHO Reports
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The World Health Organization [WHO] reported Tuesday that the number of deaths in Yemen from diphtheria increased to 66 cases in the past several months.
The organization said in a report that the cases were recorded in 20 out of the 23 governorates and in 163 out of the 333 districts.
The report pointed out that 1,100 cases of infection were recorded in those governorates without specifying the exact duration.
According to the report the disease has mostly spread in the provinces of Ibb in the center and Hodeida in the west.
The outbreak coincides with the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in April 2017, which killed more than 2,200 people with more than one million suspected cases, according to previous WHO reports.
Since the conflict escalated in March 2015, nearly 2 million children are out of school, including almost half a million who dropped out. Also, health workers and teachers have been only partially paid for over a year, affecting education for 4.5 million children.
At the end of September 2017, 256 schools were reported totally destroyed, 150 schools were occupied by displaced people, and 23 by armed groups.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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