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Yemen's cholera survivors get oral vaccines in Sanaa

The World Health Organization and Yemeni health officials are offering an oral cholera vaccine in Yemen, but some Yemenis are suspicious of the vaccine.
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SANAA, Yemen — When she heard the voice over a speaker outside her home in eastern Sanaa, Fatima Hussein hurried to the nearest health center the morning of April 30. She had been hospitalized with cholera five months ago, she said, and feared the disease.

“I heard the speaker on the taxi, so I am here because I can’t afford to be infected again,” she said.

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