Editorial

摘要

As this issue of Medicine, Conflict & Survival was being finalized efforts to contain outbreaks of diphtheria and cholera continued in Yemen, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was given the responsibility of attributing responsibility for attacks (not just establishing whether they had happened), two more people in Wiltshire, UK, had been exposed to a nerve agent and one had tragically died, more than 200 people drowned in the Mediterranean in 3 days as they tried to reach Europe and there were reports of medical posts being bombed in the Syrian city of Daraa. Appropriately - and tragically - these events are relevant for several of the articles in this issue.