Yemen Sterilizes Sanaa Water Supplies as Cholera Outbreak Picks up Again

Yemen Sterilizes Sanaa Water Supplies as Cholera Outbreak Picks up Again
Girls wait next to a charity tap where people collect drinking water amid fears of a new cholera outbreak in Sanaa, Yemen on Nov. 5, 2018. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
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SANAA—Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to help stem the world’s worst outbreak of cholera.

Nearly four years of war have crippled healthcare and sanitation systems in Yemen, where some 1.2 million suspected cholera cases have been reported since 2017, with 2,515 deaths.