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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 ...
In 1913, the Romanian Army, while invading Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War, suffered a cholera outbreak that resulted in 1,600 deaths. [64] [65] [66] During the outbreak, due to cholera frequently being spread by immigrants and tourists, the disease became associated with either outsiders or marginalized groups in societies.
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 ...
A cholera outbreak in Syria has already killed at least 33 people, posing a danger across the frontlines of the country's 11-year-long war and stirring fears in crowded camps for the displaced.
Today we report on new genetic research that may lead to tools or treatments to prevent cholera outbreaks, and on a study of a potentially practice-changing approach to treating some liver tumors.
A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq is thought to be the result of poor water quality. [7] As many as half of Iraqi doctors have left the country since 2003. [ 8 ]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Iraq War – a protracted armed conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011, ... 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak; Ethnic and religious attacks