Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as millionth case looms

Nice, Guardian. Only a passing mention of the civil war that has led to all this. The US and UK need to stop funding Saudi Arabia's military in order for this to stop happening in Yemen.

I hit the link already mildly fuming at what I thought was clickbait because there&#x27;s no way any place could be on track for <i>one million</i> cases of cholera in today&#x27;s world. Quite heartbreaking to find out the headline is factual.

Ironical that the only help that Yemen - the poorest country in the region - can get from the neighbouring resource rich countries is bombs raining from the sky. Now, Saudi Arabia so hates the Shias that they would rather bomb Yemen to the 3rd century than have the Shias takeover. Yet, surprisingly, the long serving Ali Abdullah Saleh himself a Shia, was always friendly to the Saudis. So what changed?

War is the biggest factor in this, but Yemen had a very serious problem with water scarcity to begin with. They were already on track to run out of water in their main city within a few years. Many were dependent on trucked-in water.[1] Now even that is impossible.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;global-development-professionals-network&#x2F;2015&#x2F;apr&#x2F;02&#x2F;water-scarcity-yemen-conflict" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;global-development-professionals...</a>

Real happy to see Saudi Arabia really earn their place as head of UN humans rights council!

It’s an atrocious war, being fought by the Saudis using cutting edge US weapons with US diplomatic support against a largely defenseless population.

This is the result of incompetency and inadequacy at multiple levels.<p>Yemen ceased their vaccine campaign against cholera.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;cholera-vaccination-campaign-yemen-dropped" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;cholera-vaccination-...</a>

It’s just heartbreaking that the solution to cholera is so simple. Boiled water and salt&#x2F;sugar solution. What on Earth is going on in Yemen :(

In a correspondence between the Austrian and the German military during World War I, the Austrian army described their situation as serious, but not disastrous. The German military replied that their situation was disastrous, but not serious.<p>I know likewise that our situation is disastrous with an climate crisis, economic crisis, refugee crisis, political crisis and now the worst cholera crisis in history too, but the situation still isn&#x27;t seriously enough command some sort of action.

Maybe the UK could give some % of the profits from selling to the Saudis to use on Yemen to help out.

Has there been a recent uptick in Yemeni immigrants to the U.S.? Almost every day for the last few months I’ve seen Yemeni women in NYC wearing full niqabs, which I’d never seen here before this year.

I&#x27;m thankful every day that I live in a developed nation that spares from this kind of suffering. We take so much for granted in the developed world, the cynicism with which many of us view our own nations is naive and shortsighted.