(MENAFN) According to the World Health Organization (WHO) announcement on Monday, a diphtheria outbreak has killed 73 people in war-torn Yemen since August.
In a statement, the UN agency said some 1,294 suspected cases of diphtheria have been registered in 20 of Yemen's 23 provinces.
Diphtheria spreads as easily as the common cold through sneezing, coughing or even talking, according to health officials.
Mainly affecting children, diphtheria can cause devastating epidemics if left unchecked.
Saudi Arabia and some other countries attacked Yemen in March 2015 to re-empower the deposed president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Thousands of Yemenis have been killed in the Arabian-American coalition's attack and more than 2,000 have died due to cholera epidemic, prompting the UN to describe the situation in Yemen as one of "the world's worst humanitarian disasters in modern times".
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