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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 ...
COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Disease outbreaks in Iraq" ... 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak; C. COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region
There was an outbreak in Odessa in July 1970, and there were also many reports of a cholera outbreak near Baku in 1972, but information about it was suppressed in the Soviet Union. [67] In 1970, a cholera outbreak struck the Sağmalcılar district of Istanbul, then an impoverished slum, claiming more than 50 lives. Because this incident was ...
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.
Dozens of escaped residents of the besieged town of al-Hilaliya in Sudan's El Gezira state have tested positive for cholera, a medical source told Reuters, in a development that provides a likely ...
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.
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 ...
A World Health Organization official said cholera cases have surged this year, with outbreaks reported in 26 countries and fatality rates rising sharply. While most of those affected will have ...