‘It’s a Slow Death’: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
In just three months, cholera has killed nearly 2,000 people and infected more than a half million, one of the world’s largest outbreaks in the past 50 years.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/23/world/middleeast/yemen-cholera-humanitarian-crisis.html?mcubz=0
#Yémen #cartographie #visualisation #choléra #santé #chiffres #statistiques
How the House of Saud Inflicted 500,000 Cholera Cases — As Policy | The Tyee
▻https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/08/23/House-of-Saud-Cholera
a 31-year-old Saudi prince is waging biological warfare against his neighbours, and we aren’t even complaining. The WHO is in no position to name and shame the House of Saud, whose wealth gives the Saudis political clout with UN members that need its oil; WHO can only thank the Saudis for tossing some spare change at a problem they themselves created.
It’s extremely difficult to conduct foreign policy on strictly moral terms. This is especially true when one is already compromised, as Canada is in this case thanks to our providing armoured personnel carriers to the Saudis. For the sake of some Ontario votes, Trudeau’s Liberals have tolerated not only the suppression of Saudi citizens with those armoured vehicles, but the starvation and sickening of hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children and adults.
#arabie_saoudite #yémen #guerre #choléra #canada #OMS (complices)
Chaque jour, cinq mille nouveaux cas de #choléra au Yémen - La Libre
▻http://www.lalibre.be/actu/international/chaque-jour-cinq-mille-nouveaux-cas-de-cholera-au-yemen-59948c99cd70d65d256a
Le choléra se propage par l’eau et dans de mauvaises conditions d’hygiène, lesquelles sont ici amplifiées par la guerre. « Les premiers cas sont apparus dix jours après que le système d’égouttage et d’assainissement a cessé de fonctionner » à la mi-avril, explique Mme Jaquemet. Et de citer les facteurs qui « alimentent » l’épidémie, autant de rouages d’un engrenage fatal : manque d’entretien des installations et usines de traitement des eaux usées, manque de pièces de rechange et de matériel, collecte d’immondices défaillante, personnels non payés depuis longtemps…
Autre facteur aggravant : la malnutrition. Les personnes ayant une mauvaise alimentation sont aussi moins résistantes aux vecteurs infectieux. Au Yémen, plus de la moitié des 27 millions d’habitants souffre d’insécurité alimentaire. « Le pays est au bord de la famine, avec plus de 60 % de la population ne sachant pas d’où viendra son prochain repas », avaient affirmé ensemble, fin juillet, les directeurs de l’OMS, du PAM (Programme alimentaire mondial) et de l’Unicef .
R Package for Analyzing John Snow’s 1854 Cholera Data
▻https://github.com/lindbrook/cholera
The second method, which actually follows Snow’s lead, computes neighborhoods based on the “actual” walking distance along the streets of Soho. While more accurate, it is computationally more demanding to compute than Voronoi tessellation.
Somalia’s impossible fight against cholera
Ahmed Hussein’s perfectly white teeth seem too big for his mouth; his upper arms look like they belong to a little boy, not a 23-year-old man.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/feature/2017/08/01/somalia-s-impossible-fight-against-cholera
#choléra #Somalie #santé #maladie
Red Cross chief visits besieged city on Yemen’s front lines | Lexington Herald Leader
▻http://www.kentucky.com/living/health-and-medicine/article163246203.html
The chief of the international Red Cross made a rare visit to the front lines in #Yemen Monday, taking a dirt road to reach the besieged western city of Taiz, devastated by more than two years of fighting.
The visit by Peter Maurer, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, is meant to provide the ICRC with a firsthand look at Yemen’s raging #cholera epidemic and humanitarian crisis amid the civil war. Maurer already visited the southern port city of Aden and will be ending his trip in Sanaa.
The executive directors of UNICEF and WHO are also in Yemen to urge for much-needed humanitarian aid. The $2.1 billion humanitarian appeal for Yemen is only 33 percent funded, and the response to the cholera epidemic requires an additional $250 million, of which just $47 million has been received, according to the United Nations.
Maurer posted a video showing him driving on unpaved roads to Taiz and tweeted: “The city is encircled and main roads are cut off.”
“I find this needless suffering absolutely infuriating. The world is sleep-walking into yet more tragedy,” Maurer said on Sunday.
#CICR
Cholera Is Slaughtering Yemen and We’re Letting It Happen, by Laurie Garrett | Fortune.com
▻http://fortune.com/2017/07/20/cholera-is-slaughtering-yemen-and-were-letting-it-happen
▻https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/gettyimages-815606282.jpg?w=720
This is the worst #cholera epidemic in modern history, and it has already spread well beyond the borders of Yemen, though neighboring nations decline to officially report “cholera,” preferring the ambiguous phrase, “acute watery diarrhea.” Even the new director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, plays the name game (…)
Confronting this catastrophe commands honesty: Cholera is now rampant not only in Yemen, but South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and in refugee camps across the Middle East. Last month, the disease broke out in a luxury hotel in Nairobi, sickening attendees to a health conference. By that time, UNICEF head Anthony Lake said, the #Yemen disaster was growing by 5,000 new cases per day—a pace it has since well exceeded. The true toll may well reach half a million before July ends, and the agony is evident everywhere one looks.
The horrible irony is that cholera is spreading primarily because Saudi Arabia and its Gulf state allies have been bombing Yemen’s infrastructure to smithereens for months, rendering every water supply contaminated. The reluctance of Ethiopia and other cholera-afflicted nations to truthfully state their health plights is due to the same countries’—Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies—policies of boycotting all trade and food from nations that admit to having the disease. And historically the greatest scourge of the annual Hajj is—you guessed it—cholera.
et il faut que ce soit publié dans Fortune (!!)
Tiens #hajj (à venir : 30/08-04/09/17)
Yemen cholera epidemic slowing after infecting 400,000
New cases are continuing at between 5,000 and 6,000 per day, but the epidemic curve shows that the outbreak peaked about three weeks ago
▻http://news.trust.org/item/20170725103128-xf432
#choléra #santé
Yemen In Crisis: How To Stop The World’s Worst Cholera Outbreak : Goats and Soda : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/30/534873405/how-to-stop-the-worlds-worst-cholera-outbreak
Yemen is struggling to control a cholera outbreak that the U.N. is calling “the worst ... in the world.”
As of June 26, the World Health Organization estimates that there have been nearly 219,000 cases and 1,400 deaths since the start of the outbreak in late April. The outbreak is adding to a humanitarian crisis brought on by a civil war that’s lasted more than two years.
WHO has approved use of a vaccine in Yemen, but it works best if given before an outbreak starts. The organization is considering whether provinces neighboring those with rampant cholera would make good targets for a vaccine campaign. Some areas may not be safe or accessible for vaccine workers because of fighting.
YEMEN : THE INVISIBLE CRISIS
After two years of relentless conflict, Yemen faces a humanitarian crisis quickly engulfing the majority of its population. According to latest United Nations reports published in April 2017, an alarming 18.8 million people - almost two thirds of the population - need humanitarian assistance or protection support. Since mid-2015, when Houthi rebel forces took over the capital city of Sana’a, at least three million people have fled their homes from regions now embroiled in a prolonged ground war. As a result of the fighting, public services have broken down. Less than half of the health centers function with medical supplies at a critically low supply. As of May 2017, the 1.3 million plus civil servants were entering an eighth month of not having been paid. This statistic includes the thousands of doctors, nurses and paramedics who continue to work despite the increasingly bleak future.
▻http://www.gilesnclarke.com/yemen-the-invisible-crisis
#Yémen #photographie #malnutrition #faim #famine #guerre #conflit #GILES_CLARK #santé #maladie #hôpitaux #destruction #choléra
cc @albertocampiphoto @philippe_de_jonckheere
Famine in Yemen: A primer
Warnings of famine in Yemen are coming hard and fast these days, with UN Relief Chief Mark Lowcock telling the Security Council on Tuesday that “there is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great big famine engulfing” the country.
The truth is that Yemen has been teetering on the edge of famine for much of its more than three and a half years of war, and while food prices have recently shot up thanks to a collapsing currency, this is not the first time humanitarians have rung the alarm bells.
Back in November 2017, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels and their allies temporarily closed Yemen’s air, land, and sea borders in response to a rocket sent by the Houthis towards Riyadh. Eighteen NGOs issued a statement then expressing concern that “the humanitarian situation is extremely fragile and any disruption in the pipeline of critical supplies such as food, fuel, and medicines has the potential to bring millions of people closer to starvation and death”.
The blockade was later eased and some aid was allowed in, but as we pointed out at the time, when it comes to averting famine, commercial imports are more important than relief supplies.
In most of Yemen, shops and markets still sell food. But many people simply don’t have the money to buy it. Yemen’s currency has been in freefall since September, causing a spike in food and fuel prices and even further impacting the average Yemeni’s ability to purchase what they need to survive.
Millions of hungry people live in Yemen. The UN now estimates that 14 million Yemenis, half the country, could soon be in what it calls “pre-famine” conditions; that means they will rely on aid to survive. That number may rise even more if Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah is closed by fighting; the coalition is currently intensifying an offensive on Houthis in the city.
But declaring a famine is a technically complicated process, as this account from South Sudan illustrates:
We don’t yet know if and when famine will be declared. Analysts are reviewing market, health, and nutrition surveys from across Yemen to determine if the situation crosses the technical threshold of “famine”. In order to avoid false alarms and crying wolf, strict requirements must be met before a situation can be designated a famine. And even that declaration can still be held up or delayed by political concerns – governments and warring parties typically don’t want to admit to a famine on their watch.
In 2011, the UN declared the first famine of the 21st century in Somalia, caused by war, drought, and restricted relief access. The announcement was met by a wave of new funding, international media and diplomatic attention, and more determined efforts to work through blockages. The declaration, based on the same Integrated Phase Classification methodology that Yemen analysts are using, had no automatic effect but galvanised an international response, including $1.25 billion in 2011. Any famine declaration is an admission of failure: later studies showed that about half of an estimated 260,000 Somali deaths took place before the pronouncement.
For now, just when an official declaration of famine will come, if it comes at all, is still unclear. What we know for sure: malnutrition can be deadly, and right now it’s making some Yemenis more susceptible to diseases like cholera and diphtheria.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/news/2018/10/24/famine-yemen-primer
#alimentation #nourriture #prix #blé
U.N. blames warring sides for Yemen’s ’man-made’ cholera ’catastrophe’ | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-cholera-idUSKBN19D1EX
U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien described the cholera outbreak in Yemen, which is fast approaching 300,000 cases, as a “man-made catastrophe” caused by the warring sides in the country’s civil war and their international backers.
The number of suspected cases of the disease, which is caused by ingesting bacteria from water or food contaminated with faeces, reached 179,548 by 20 June, with 1,205 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
“This is because of conflict, it’s man-made, it’s very severe, the numbers are absolutely staggering, it’s getting worse, and the cholera element in addition to the lack of food, the lack of medical supplies, primarily one has to put that at the door of all the parties to the conflict,” O’Brien said.
(et si tout le monde est coupable personne ne l’est)
Choléra au Yémen : plus de 100.000 cas suspects, 789 morts selon l’OMS
▻http://www.europe1.fr/international/cholera-au-yemen-plus-de-100000-cas-suspects-789-morts-selon-loms-3355010
Une personne meurt chaque heure du choléra. Selon un communiqué publié jeudi par l’ONG Oxfam, actuellement au #Yémen, une personne décède chaque heure du choléra.
Advocates Denounce UN Breaking Promise of Compensation for Cholera Victims
▻http://www.ijdh.org/2017/06/projects/advocates-denounce-un-breaking-promise-of-compensation-for-cholera-victims
Human rights advocates denounced yesterday’s UN announcement that it will unilaterally replace compensation for victims of the UN-caused #cholera outbreak in #Haiti with “community projects,” in violation of its promise to involve victims in that decision.
Le #Yémen en proie à une épidémie de #choléra et menacé de #famine
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2017/06/06/le-yemen-en-proie-a-une-epidemie-de-cholera-et-menace-de-famine_5139164_3244
Depuis la fin du mois d’avril, une épidémie de choléra s’étend à une vitesse exponentielle au Yémen. Les structures de santé, dévastées par plus de deux ans de conflit, sont incapables de contenir la catastrophe. Des premiers cas ont été signalés à l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) dès octobre 2016 mais l’épidémie flambe de nouveau ce printemps : entre le 27 avril et le 30 mai, 65 041 cas ont été recensés. Au cours de la seule semaine du 15 au 22 mai, 18 000 nouveaux cas ont été signalés et entre 3 000 et 5 000 nouveaux cas sont désormais enregistrés chaque jour. 532 morts ont été dénombrés. Samedi 3 juin, le directeur régional de l’Unicef, Geert Cappelaere, estimait que 130 000 personnes au total pourraient être infectées d’ici deux semaines.
Si dix-neuf des vingt-trois gouvernorats sont touchés, l’épidémie affecte principalement des régions contrôlées par les rebelles houthistes alliés à l’ex-président Ali Abdallah Saleh : la capitale, Sanaa, et sa région, ainsi que les gouvernorats d’Amran et de Hajja, situés dans le nord-ouest du pays. Ces zones font l’objet d’un blocus de la coalition internationale dirigée par l’Arabie saoudite, en guerre contre les rebelles depuis mars 2015.
L’apparition du choléra s’ajoute à une menace de famine majeure : la sécurité alimentaire de 17 millions de personnes est menacée et 6,8 millions de Yéménites sont « à un pas de la famine », a rappelé, le 31 mai, le coordinateur des secours d’urgence des Nations unies, Stephen O’Brien. Ce dernier appelle la coalition internationale à ne pas lancer l’assaut sur le port d’Hodeïda, principale voie d’accès aux zones rebelles, dont l’activité a été drastiquement réduite par les bombardements et le blocus.
#paywall (et il n’y a plus le truc de la lecture zen pour le contourner…)
.:Middle East Online:: :.
▻http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=83110
A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with an influx of patients, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday.
“We now are facing a serious outbreak of cholera,” said ICRC director of operations Dominik Stillhart at a news conference in the capital Sanaa.
Le #choléra a fait 115 morts en 2 semaines au #Yémen (CICR)
Le choléra a fait en deux semaines 115 morts au Yémen où 8.500 cas suspects ont été recensés alors que ce pays est déchiré par la guerre, a annoncé dimanche un responsable du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR).
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/le-cholera-fait-115-morts-en-2-semaines-au-yemen-cicr.afp.com
Choléra au Yémen : les rebelles appellent à l’aide internationale
Les houthis déclarent l’état d’urgence dans la capitale Sanaa.
▻https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051785/cholera-letat-durgence-declare-a-sanaa.html
Choléra au Yémen : près de 23.500 cas, 242 morts en trois semaines
L’épidémie de choléra, qui sévit au Yémen depuis fin avril, a fait 242 morts et 23.425 cas suspects dans ce pays en guerre, a indiqué vendredi l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), qui s’attend à près de 250.000 cas d’ici six mois.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/cholera-au-yemen-pres-de-23500-cas-242-morts-en-trois-semaine
A country ’on its knees’: Cholera takes hold in war-weary Yemen
Hilal al-Asri brought his wife to a hospital in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, nearly two weeks ago, expecting her cholera would be cleared up quickly and they’d be on their way.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/feature/2017/05/17/country-its-knees-cholera-takes-hold-war-weary-yemen
Unprecedented spread of cholera in Yemen as health workers race against time to save children
“Cholera is spreading incredibly fast in Yemen, turning an already dire situation for children turn into a disaster. In just over one month, close to 70,000 cholera cases were reported with nearly 600 fatalities. The number of suspected cases is expected to reach 130,000 within the next two weeks.
Yemen: almost one death per hour as cholera epidemic spreads like wildfire
Number of suspected cases reaches 100,000 as Yemeni health system teeters on brink of collapse
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-war-deaths-cholera-epidemic-dying-every-hour-a7782341.html
Cholera Stalks ‘Refugee Islands’ in Swamplands of South Sudan
In South Sudan, people are sheltering from conflict wherever they can, including a network of islands in the swamps of Unity State. On one island, where 2,300 displaced people live without access to clean water or toilets, cholera has become rife.
Thousands of IDPs at risk of cholera outbreak in S. Sudan’s #Jonglei
June 2, 2017 (JUBA) – Thousands of South Sudanese displaced people in Jonglei state are at risk from a cholera outbreak, warned the medical group Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday.
▻http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article62626
#IDPs #déplacés_internes
Infographics in the Time of Cholera - ProPublica
►https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/infographics-in-the-time-of-cholera
This story originally appeared in “Malofiej 24,” published by the Spanish Chapter of the Society for News Design (SNDE).
“It is a singular truth that the mere shadowy image of a building is likely to have a longer term of existence than the piled brick and mortar of a building. Should posterity know where the proud structure stood, it will be indebted for its knowledge to the woodcut.”
—attributed to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1836, quoted in “Low Life” by Luc Sante.
It’s a simple line chart, the kind you can make using Excel in about a minute, but for its time it might as well have been from another planet.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, 1849, The New York Tribune published on its front page a line chart tracking the deaths in New York City from the cholera epidemic that summer. It used techniques that would become common decades later, but were, for the time being, at the bleeding edge of visual data journalism. And, until now, it was forgotten.
#santé #cholera #cartographie #visualisation #cartoexperiment
UN #Haiti #cholera fund fails to draw pledges with only two percent of the needed $400 million raised so far
▻https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-haiti-cholera-fund-pledges.html
#crime_contre_l'humanité #nations_unies ou soi-disant unies.
#Haiti - #Cholera : 2016 report +24% of cases, + 41% of deaths - HaitiLibre.com
▻http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19678-haiti-cholera-2016-report-+24-of-cases-+-41-of-deaths.html
Cholera persists in Haiti due to: underfunding of the National Cholera Elimination Plan (45% financed $ 9.2 million out of $ 20.3 million); Poor access to safe drinking water and sanitation; Lack of access to quality medical care; Lack of knowledge of socio-cultural factors related to this problem; High population density and mobility to urban areas.
et que font les #Nations_unies ?
#Eau rage, eau des espoirs ! 67
#eau_potable #assainissement #maladie_hydrique #choléra #diarrhée #toilettes #agriculture #eau_cachée #dessalement #séisme #catherine_carré #bien_commun #patrimoine #loi_sur_l'eau #industrie #pesticides #produits_pharmaceutiques #épuration
#curatif c/ #préventif
#environnement #agences_de_l'eau #modèle_économique #droit_humain #coca-cola #Mexique #Turquie #hydroélectricité #véolia #régie_publique #privatisation
UN admits for first time that peacekeepers brought cholera to Haiti | Global development | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/dec/01/haiti-cholera-outbreak-stain-on-reputation-un-says
In a 16-page report released on Thursday setting out what is being billed as a new approach to fighting cholera in Haiti, the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, cites expert opinion about the cause of the deadly outbreak. It found that “the preponderance of the evidence does lead to the conclusion that personnel associated with the [UN’s peacekeeping] facility were the most likely source”.
(...)
Despite the presentation of the speech as a historic “apology”, it remained carefully worded in order to meet the tight limitations imposed by the UN’s legal position. Since cholera erupted in Haiti in September 2010, the UN has insisted that it is legally immune from any claims for compensation from those who were sickened or from the families of those who died.
The official death toll now stands at 9,200 people, but studies have suggested that if under-reporting is taken into account the real figure may be more than three times that number.
After UN apology, real work on cholera in Haiti begins
The United Nations offered Haiti a lackluster apology this week for its role in a deadly cholera outbreak on the island nation. Donor nations, including the United States, must do better in delivering material relief.
Choléra en Haïti: seules 2% des promesses d’aide tenues
Seules 2% des promesses de financement d’un fonds de l’ONU pour les victimes du choléra en Haïti ont été tenues, selon une lettre du secrétaire général de l’ONU Antonio Guterres, obtenue par l’AFP vendredi.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/cholera-en-haiti-seules-2-des-promesses-daide-tenues.afp.com.
Choléra en Haïti : l’ONU veut puiser dans les caisses de la #Minustah
L’ONU va demander aux pays finançant les Casques bleus en Haïti de céder à l’organisation les 40,5 millions de dollars qui restent dans les caisses de la Minustah, devant fermer sous peu, pour les allouer à la lutte contre le choléra.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/cholera-en-haiti-lonu-veut-puiser-dans-les-caisses-de-la-minu
L’ONU s’excuse pour son rôle dans l’épidémie de choléra en Haïti
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2016/12/02/l-onu-s-excuse-pour-son-role-dans-l-epidemie-de-cholera-en-haiti_5042421_324
« Au nom des Nations unies, je veux vous le dire très clairement : nous nous excusons auprès du peuple haïtien. Nous n’avons tout simplement pas fait assez concernant l’épidémie de #choléra et sa propagation en Haïti. » En trois phrases, prononcées en français, en anglais et en créole, Ban Ki-moon vient de clore, jeudi 1er décembre, devant l’assemblée générale des Nations unies, six ans de silences embarrassés de l’#ONU sur sa #responsabilité dans l’épidémie de choléra qui touche #Haïti depuis 2010.
« La sincérité du discours du secrétaire général était palpable », s’est réjouie Beatrice Lindstorm, juriste à l’Institut pour la justice et la démocratie en Haïti, une ONG américaine qui a aidé les familles de victimes à déposer plainte contre l’ONU. Mais elle regrette que l’organisation refuse toujours de reconnaître sa #responsabilité_juridique. « La déclaration ne dit pas que les Nations unies sont responsables d’avoir importé le choléra à Haiti. C’est une vérité qu’on voudrait vraiment entendre de la bouche de Ban Ki-moon », a t-elle estimé.
L’héritage de Ban Ki-moon entaché par l’épidémie de #choléra
Près d’un mois après que des responsables des Nations Unies eurent annoncé l’idée d’une enveloppe spéciale de 400 millions de dollars pour lutter contre le choléra à #Haïti, presque aucun donateur n’a accepté de contribuer à la fourniture d’une aide matérielle aux victimes de la maladie. Celle-ci aurait été importée du Népal en octobre 2010 par les soldats de maintien de la paix des Nations Unies et aurait tué 9 100 Haïtiens depuis. Or ce n’est que récemment que les Nations Unies ont commencé à reconnaître qu’elles ont une part de responsabilité dans cette terrible épidémie.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/fr/analyses/2016/11/18/l%E2%80%99h%C3%A9ritage-de-ban-ki-moon-entach%C3%A9-par-l%E2%80%99%C3%A9pi
#santé
The fight against cholera in Yemen | At a glance: Yemen | UNICEF
▻https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/yemen_92955.html
L’image ne suffit pas à alerter l’opinion sur la situation au Yémen : serait-ce parce que nos amis y utilisent les armes que nous leur vendons fort cher ?
▻http://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/unhcr-yemen-cholera-response-update-31-october-2016-enar
UNHCR’s population of concern in Yemen
269,255 Registered refugees
9,087 Registered asylum seekers
2.18 million Internally Displaced People
1 million IDP Returnees
According to health officials, a total of 2733 suspected cases and 51 associated deaths have been reported in Ta’iz, Aden, Lahij, Al Hudaydah, Hajjah, Sana’a, Al Bayda, Dhamar and Ibb. 75 cholera cases have been laboratory-confirmed so far.
▻http://outbreaknewstoday.com/cholera-yemen-thousands-suspected-cases-10722
While acute watery diarrheal diseases are endemic in Yemen, the ongoing conflict has stretched the capacity of the national health systems. More than 7.6 million people are currently living in areas affected by the outbreak, as well as more than 3 million internally displaced persons.
The Remarkable History of GIS - GIS Geography
▻http://gisgeography.com/history-of-gis
The Remarkable History of GIS
Mapping has revolutionized how we think about location. Maps are important decision making tools. They help us get to places. And they are becoming more immersed in our everyday lives.
But where did it all begin?
Advancements in GIS was the result of several technologies. Databases, computer mapping, remote sensing, programming, geography, mathematics, computer aided design, and computer science all played a key role in the development of GIS.
Today, we’ll uncover some of the key moments in the history of GIS that has shaped it what it has become today: