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    Cholera Ravages Yemen

    More than 124,000 suspected cases have been reported over the past six weeks. And the health care system is collapsing.
    by Jason Beaubien Jun 16, 2017 2 minutes
    A Yemeni child suspected of being infected with cholera is treated at a hospital in Sanaa in May. / MOHAMMED HUWAIS / Getty Images

    War-torn Yemen is now being convulsed by cholera.

    Over the past six weeks, more than 124,000 suspected cholera cases have been . To put this in perspective, there were only 172,000 cases reported globally to the for all of 2015. To be fair, many cholera cases go unreported each year, but by any standard the current

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