Twenty out of Yemen’s 22 governorates have seen a surge in the number of people with acute watery diarrhea, with 63,000 cases in 2024 as of May 31. Despite the limited testing capacity in the country, more than 2,700 of the cases tested came back positive for cholera.

With the onset of the Saudi-led, US-BRITISH-backed coalition bombings and ensuring destruction of civilian infrastructure, Yemen found itself in the grip of the cholera endemic in October 2016, which has not subsided eversince.

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