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Very tense situation this morning at Joliot-Curie high school in #Nanterre following a new blockade with fireworks against tear gas and LBD shots. 14 high school students spent more than 24 hours in police custody after being arrested on Tuesday morning
Lebanon has recorded the first death case from cholera since detecting the disease in the country in October, the health ministry has said.
Lebanon recorded its first case of cholera since 1993 on October 5, likely the result of a serious outbreak in neighbouring Syria crossing the border between the countries and exacerbated by poor sanitation and crumbling infrastructure in Lebanon after three years of unprecedented economic crisis.
The total number of recorded infections this month so far has reached 26, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
"The common point between these cases is that the majority of patients are displaced Syrians," Health Minister Firas Abiad said.
"The absence of basic services, like safe water and sewerage networks, in places where refugees gather, constitutes a fertile ground for the epidemic to spread in Lebanon."
Syria has recorded 41 deaths from cholera and more than 700 cases, the country's official SANA news agency reported on Tuesday.
The United Nations warned earlier this month that the outbreak is "evolving alarmingly".
Lebanon hosts more than a million refugees from Syria's civil war, which broke out in 2011.
Most live in poverty, and their living conditions have worsened due to Lebanon's economic woes.
Worldwide, the disease affects between 1.3 million and four million people each year, killing between 21,000 and 143,000 people.


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