Cholera has swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq as the countries have struggled with devastated infrastructure, turmoil and housing large populations of people displaced by conflict.
The hundreds of thousands of cases, worsened by conflict, poverty and climate change, have become a major setback for global efforts to eradicate the disease.
"Cholera thrives in poverty and conflict but is now turbocharged by climate change," said Inas Hamam, a regional spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO).
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