100,000 cholera cases, 789 deaths, in Yemen in past month: WHO

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen has killed nearly 800 people and infected more than 100,000 others in just over a month, the World Health Organisation said today.
The UN health agency said that since the end of April, 101,820 suspected cholera cases had been registered across 19 of the country's 21 governorates, including 789 deaths.