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Arab foreign ministers meet in 2011, Reuters

Yemen’s Legitimate Government Urges Holding Emergency over Cholera Outbreak

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 25, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- Yemen’s internationally-backed government headed by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi urged that an emergency Arab League session be held for tackling the growing cholera crisis in the war-torn country. Yemen’s Arab League Ambassador Riyad Al-Akbari delivered a...

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A nurse attends to a boy infected with cholera at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad

8,500 Potential Cholera Patients Indicate Serious Outbreak in Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

Aden- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday the cholera outbreak has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill between April 27 and Saturday. “We now are facing a serious outbreak of cholera,” Dominik Stillhart, the director of...

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Zika Kills Brazilian Women’s Dreams of Motherhood

Zika Kills Brazilian Women’s Dreams of Motherhood

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 1, 2016 | World

Women in the epicenter of the Zika outbreak in Brazil, the joy of pregnancy has given way to fear, Reuters reported. In the sprawling coastal city of Recife, panic has struck maternity wards since Zika – a mosquito-borne virus first detected in the Americas last...