- Syria’s health ministry has recorded 39 deaths from cholera and nearly 600 cases in an outbreak spreading in the war-ravaged country that the United Nations warned is “evolving alarmingly”.
- The disease is making its first major comeback since 2009 in Syria, where nearly two-thirds of water treatment plants, half of pumping stations and one-third of water towers have been damaged by more than a decade of war.
- Despite the contamination, over five million of Syria’s about 18 million people rely on the Euphrates for their drinking water.
<span>Syria reports 39 dead in cholera outbreak</span>
