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Cholera cases surge in Yemen as conflict intensifies, WHO says

A quarter of Yemen's 8,034 suspected cholera cases this year came in the last four weeks, with 27 deaths reported; the WHO ties the surge to intensifying conflict.

On air: Gloria Vance and Hank Ledger on BBN Newsroom
Published 2:08 PM ET, Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Photo: Yemen — Photo: المصور أنس الحاج · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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First reported by Al Jazeera: “Cholera cases surge in Yemen as conflict intensifies, WHO says”.
Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 2:08 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Gloria Vance and Hank Ledger.
Topics: Yemen.

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Al JazeeraCholera cases surge in Yemen as conflict intensifies, WHO says

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Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Yemen today, the World Health Organization reports eight thousand thirty-four suspected cholera cases this year, and twenty-seven deaths.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA quarter of those cases came in the last four weeks, as the conflict intensifies and clean water gets harder to find.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA quarter of the year's cases in just four weeks. Cholera is preventable, so this spike really shows how much the conflict is making things worse.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt is, and aid agencies have said for years that water and sanitation are what stop it. Fighting tends to destroy exactly those things.