WHO: Suspected cholera cases surging in Yemen

WHO: Suspected cholera cases surging in Yemen Suspected cholera cases tripled in three weeks in Yemen, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, warning that the growing disease burden was straining hospitals already treating war casualties. The country's escalating war, combined with mass displacement, is fuelling the risk of infectious disease outbreaks, the WHO said. Overcrowding, inadequate access to safe water and disrupted health services are exposing growing numbers of people to cholera, measles and other preventable diseases, it said. Suspected cholera cases have tripled from 217 in…