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Hundreds hospitalised in Yangon cholera outbreak

People gather outside the emergency department of Yangon General Hospital in Yangon on Aug 14, 2026, amid a diarrhoea outbreak that Myanmar authorities said has killed one person and hospitalised almost 200 others. (Photo: AFP)

YANGON — Some 500 people have been hospitalised for severe diarrhoea in Myanmar's largest city, a Yangon official said on Monday, with nearly 150 testing positive for cholera.

Myanmar's infrastructure and health sector are creaking after more than five years of civil war in which more than 100,000 people are estimated to have been killed -- and with the economy moribund.

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