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The risk of cholera spreading in Lebanon is “very high”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, after a case of the acute and potentially deadly diarrhoeal infection was detected, AFP reports.
The WHO highlighted the risk of cholera spreading among hundreds of thousands of people displaced since Israel escalated an air campaign against Hezbollah and launched a ground offensive intended to push the group back from its northern border with Lebanon.
“If the cholera outbreak … spreads to the new displaced people, it might spread very fast,” Abdinasir Abubakar, WHO’s representative in Lebanon, told reporters in an online news conference.
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