{"id":101159,"date":"2017-05-06T19:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T23:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101159"},"modified":"2017-05-06T19:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T23:29:34","slug":"yemen-confirms-69-new-cholera-cases-in-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/06\/yemen-confirms-69-new-cholera-cases-in-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen confirms 69 new cholera cases in capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101160\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Yemen_-_Location_Map_2013_-_YEM_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101160\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Yemen_-_Location_Map_2013_-_YEM_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png\" alt=\"Last October, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 51 confirmed cases of cholera from nine governorates in Yemen, with more than 1,180 suspected cases. (Photo: OCHA\/ Wikipedia)\" width=\"254\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Yemen_-_Location_Map_2013_-_YEM_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png 254w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Yemen_-_Location_Map_2013_-_YEM_-_UNOCHA.svg_-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last October, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 51 confirmed cases of cholera from nine governorates in Yemen, with more than 1,180 suspected cases. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">OCHA\/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SANAA\u2013 A total of 69 new cases of cholera were registered to a state-run hospital in Yemen&#8217;s capital of Sanaa over the past week, a hospital official has said.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the laboratory confirmed cases have died, Nasr al-Kadasi, director of al-Jomuhory hospital, told Xinhua on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The new cholera cases were received by the hospital between April 28 and May 4, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 51 confirmed cases of cholera from nine governorates in Yemen, with more than 1,180 suspected cases.<\/p>\n<p>Some 7.6 million Yemenis are living in affected areas in the conflict-ridden country, whose health system has collapsed due to a prolonged civil war, according to the WHO.<\/p>\n<p>The impoverished Arab country in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, was plunged into a civil war two years ago, leaving more than 10,000 dead with half of them civilians, and over two million people displaced, according to humanitarian agencies.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA\u2013 A total of 69 new cases of cholera were registered to a state-run hospital in Yemen&#8217;s capital of Sanaa &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,16,17],"tags":[3691,2108],"class_list":["post-101159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","category-news-w","tag-cholera","tag-yemen","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}