War-torn Yemen to get cholera vaccines as death toll mounts
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June 22, 2017
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency and some major partners have agreed to send 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen to help stanch a spiraling and increasingly deadly caseload in the impoverished country, which is already facing war and the risk of famine.
A spokesman for the World Health Organization said Wednesday that it didn't initially want to publicize last week's decision because questions remain about when and how the doses could reach the neediest people in a country sliced up along front lines and grappling with a nearly-collapsed health system.
WHO said the 1 million d...
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