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Cholera was first detected in Kirkuk, in Northern Iraq, on 14 August 2007. By September, the outbreak had reached Baghdad and by October of the same year, cholera had spread to 9 out of Iraq's 18 provinces, [8] affecting an estimated 30,000 people and killing 14. The Iraqi government had difficultly treating or preventing the spread, in part ...
2007 Iraq cholera outbreak; 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak; 2009 Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak; 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak; 2012 Sierra Leonean cholera outbreak; 2014–2015 African cholera outbreak; 2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak; 2018–2019 Zimbabwe cholera outbreak; 2020 cholera outbreak in Bengaluru; 2022 cholera outbreak in ...
Japan suffered at least seven major outbreaks of cholera between 1858 and 1902. Between 100,000 and 200,000 people died of cholera in Tokyo in an outbreak in 1858–1860. [35] Patients suffering from cholera in 1854. In 1854, an outbreak of cholera in Chicago took the lives of 5.5 percent of the population (about 3,500 people).
Cholera: 684 [248] 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak: 2007 Iraq: Cholera: 10 [249] 2007 Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Mexico dengue fever epidemic 2007 Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico Dengue fever: 183 [250] 2007 Uganda Ebola outbreak 2007 Uganda: Ebola: 37 [237] 2007 Netherlands Q-fever epidemic 2007–2018 Netherlands Q-fever: 95 [251]
Recent major outbreaks are the 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak and the 2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak. In October 2016, an outbreak of cholera began in war-ravaged Yemen. [87] WHO called it "the worst cholera outbreak in the world". [88] In 2019, 93% of the reported 923,037 cholera cases were from Yemen (with 1911 deaths reported). [89]
The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [84] [85] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition , which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein .
The sixth cholera pandemic (1899–1923) was a major outbreak of cholera beginning in India, where it killed more than 800,000 people, and spreading to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
The French government organizes it to help stop the spread of yellow fever, cholera, and plague. Twelve countries participate, with each participating country sending a physician and a diplomat as representatives. [1] France: 1854: Crisis: Severe Broad Street cholera outbreak occurs in the Soho district of