GENEVA: After years of decline, the planet is now witnessing a worrying upsurge in cholera outbreaks, the World Health Organization warned Friday.In the first nine months of this year alone, 26.
AL KASRAH, Syria In a Syria hospital crowded with women and wailing children, Ahmad Al Mohammad writhed in pain beside his wife after they contracted cholera, which is resurging for the first time in years.During his six days in treatment, Mohammad has watched patients stream into the Al-Kasrah hospital in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, where the highly-polluted
In a Syria hospital crowded with women and wailing children, Ahmad al-Mohammad writhed in pain beside his wife after they contracted cholera, which is resurging for the first time in years.