Cholera Outbreak in Iraq Is Spreading

[951-Riverside]

Source: Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) -- An outbreak of cholera in Iraq has spread with new cases confirmed in Baghdad, Basra and for the first time the northern districts of Tikrit, Mosul and Dahuk, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

This takes to 2,116 the number of confirmed cases of cholera in Iraq, and 11 deaths from the disease, WHO said.

"It shows that people are moving, and when people are moving they are spreading cholera," said Claire-Lise Chaignat, a cholera expert at WHO.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WHO_IRAQ_CHOLERA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-09-25-12-03-34

[beberocks]

1. More proof we're committing genocide in Iraq.

I don't hear any of the right-wingers talk about the deaths from disease. Remember when part of the justification for invading Iraq was that so many children were dying under Saddam?

[uppityperson]

3. Thank goodness there are no more rape rooms either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeer_Qassim_Hamza

[closeupready]

5. Reading this makes me furious.

:mad:

[kestrel91316]

2. Infecting them over there so we don't have to infect them over here....

[damntexdem]

4. The thread above this one read 'Bush urges UN to spread freedom.'

The conjunction of the two makes it clear what Dubya means by 'freedom.'

The freedom he spreads is waterborne.