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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 difficulty treating or preventing the spread, in part ...
2007 Ethiopia cholera epidemic 2007 Ethiopia: 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 ...
2007 Iraq cholera outbreak; C. COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region This page was last edited on 6 June 2020, at 00:12 (UTC). Text is ...
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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. [89] WHO called it "the worst cholera outbreak in the world". [90] In 2019, 93% of the reported 923,037 cholera cases were from Yemen (with 1911 deaths reported). [91]
No End in Sight focuses primarily on period immediately following the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003.It asserts that serious mistakes made by the administration of President George W. Bush during that time were the cause of subsequent problems in Iraq, such as the rise of the insurgency, a lack of security and basic services for many Iraqis, sectarian violence, and, at one point, the ...
Iran, which had been free from cholera since 1939, reported 2,704 cases by mid-October. [16] When these outbreaks occurred in Iran, the Pasteur Institute of Iran produced 9.5 million cholera vaccines to protect the population of the eastern regions of Iran. [17] In 1966 Iraq reported its first case.
Iraq's health has deteriorated to a level not seen since the 1950s, said Joseph Chamie, former director of the U.N. Population Division and an Iraq specialist. "They were at the forefront", he said, referring to health care just before the 1991 Persian Gulf War. "Now they're looking more and more like a country in sub-Saharan Africa."