Lebanon cholera: ‘We’re afraid of everything now’
The infectious disease is spreading fast in a country ill-equipped to stop it. …
“Normally this waste goes through an initial screening,” Ms Higgins explains, “and it gets pumped out 1,600 metres [5,250 ft] into the sea. But because of the lack of fuel, they were unable to even pump it out to sea. So it was just being deposited directly onto the shoreline instead.”
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