WHO: 5000 SUSPECTED CHOLERA CASES RECORDED PER DAY IN YEMEN |葉門霍亂疫情擴大 每天新增5千疑似病例

Every day 5,000 new suspected cases of cholera are registered in Yemen, the world's largest outbreak of the disease, according to the World Heath Organization. The WHO admitted that the situation is far from being controlled and may be further exacerbated by the rainy season. According to the data released by WHO on July 22, suspected cholera cases in Yemen have reached as many as 368,000, 50% higher than the number in early July. In other words, 5000 to 6000 cases will be increased per day, an astronomical figure that the international society can't have ever imagined. ==FADELA CHAIB WHO spokeswoman== Yemen's cholera outbreak is far from being controlled, the rainy season has just started and may increase the paths of transmission. According to the international humanitarian groups, bad weather conditions may contribute to the rapid spread of cholera and two years of civil war have stopped the rescue operations, making millions of Yemenis suffer from severe malnutrition. ==RUPERT COLVILLE U.N. human rights spokesman== Disintegration of the health system in Yemen as a result of the conflict at a time of cholera is an absolutely lethal combination. Cholera cases were reported in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and Countries around the Caribbean Sea, as well as UN Peacekeeping Force, were all affected by the disease. The reported cases have reached 800,000 so far, 9,000 of whom are dead. Experts are concerned that poor hygiene and starvation are bound to worsen if the situations in Yemen do not improve. It's only a matter of time before the cholera outbreak in Yemen gets worse than that in Haiti. TRANSLATED BY：BRYANT CHANG 阿拉伯半島國家葉門，原本就相當嚴重的霍亂疫情，又有更加惡化的趨勢。聯合國原本預期9月份，感染病例會突破30萬人，但7月還沒過完，疑似病例就直逼37萬人。英國的樂施會估計，今年內累積病例會超過60萬人。 聯合國所屬的世界衛生組織，22號公佈的最新統計顯示，葉門這波霍亂疫情累積的疑似病例，已經達到36萬8000多人，比7月初公佈的數字多出百分之50。換算下來，平均每天會增加5000多到6000個病例，疫情擴散速度之快，超過了國際組織的想像。 ==世界衛生組織發言人 法黛拉查依布== 葉門的霍亂疫情仍處於失控狀態，隨著雨季來臨，散播的速度會加快。 除了氣候因素可能讓疫情加速擴散，在葉門當地從事人道救援的國際組織表示，不僅環境衛生狀況惡劣，打了兩年多的內戰，阻斷了人道救援工作，也讓數以百萬計的葉門民眾，面臨營養不良的困境。 ==聯合國人權事務辦公室發言人 柯威利== 葉門的衛生體系因內戰而分崩離析，霍亂在這時段出現，絕對會要人命的。 2010年的海地大地震後，當地也在同一年下半年傳出霍亂病例，不但傳染給聯合國維和部隊人員，也波及多明尼加、古巴和墨西哥等加勒比海鄰國。目前累積病例已經超過80萬人，其中9900多人死亡。國際組織專家擔憂，葉門的局勢若無法改善，衛生和饑荒勢必持續惡化，霍亂疫情超過海地，將只是時間早晚的問題。 記者 徐家仁報導