Diphtheria

YemenExtra M.A. A diphtheria outbreak has left 84 people killed in Yemen since late October, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.  In a statement, the UN agency stated some 1,516 suspected cases of…

YemenExtra SH.A. The number of people suffering from the cholera epidemic in Yemen is more than 1 million, and (2227) has died,as well as diphtheria has spread in 20 of the 23 governorates where there are more than 471,000…

YemenExtra Y.A United Nations aid agencies called on Tuesday for the Yemeni port of Hodeidah to remain open beyond Friday, the date set by a Saudi-led military coalition, to permit continued delivery of life-saving goods. Yemen is…

YemenExtra In a Bangladeshi makeshift clinic, small children struggle to draw breath through surgical masks, victims of a forgotten but deadly disease that has torn through the teeming Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.…

YemenExtra Y.A Diphtheria has claimed lives of at least 48 people within the last two months across Yemen amid the ongoing Saudi military aggression and blockade of the impoverished Arab country. The World Health Organization (WHO)…

YemenExtra SH.A. A diphtheria outbreak has killed 35 people in war-torn Yemen, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In a statement on Monday, WHO said 300 suspected cases of diphtheria have been reported in…

YemenExtra SH.A. The third Yemeni child case of diphtheria died less than 24 hours after it reached Al-Thawrah Hospital in Hodeidah province. Dr. Khaled Suhail told YemenExtra that the girl Rihan Abdullah Ayoub…

YemenExtra There is little that can introduce or reintroduce a infectious disease back to a country than the chaos that surrounds war and political and social instability. We see numerous examples of this today to include…