UN declared more than 200 thousand people with cholera in Yemen

The disease has already claimed the lives of over 1,300 people, a quarter of whom are minors.
The United Nations Health Agency reported that more than 200,000 people in Yemen have become ill with cholera. Many of them are children.

Director of UNICEF Anthony Lake and head of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan said that it was "the worst outbreak of cholera in the world." Every day, doctors register about five thousand new cases. Cholera has already claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people, a quarter of whom are minors.

The cause of the epidemic, according to the UN, is that in a war-torn country, 14.5 million people lost access to clean water.