Wednesday, June 21, 2017

How war brought cholera and polio back to the Middle East

How war brought cholera and polio back to the Middle East

BEIRUT — As war ravages public health systems in Yemen and Syria, doctors are treating epidemics and diseases they once thought were things of the past. In Yemen, it is cholera, a bacterial disease spreading so fast, about 160,000 people have been fallen sick since April. In Syria, it is polio, almost two decades after government efforts […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/06/21/how-war-brought-cholera-and-polio-back-to-the-middle-east/

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