Cholera outbreak in Iraq spreading

[katty]

continued: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20974791/

Cholera outbreak in Iraq spreading
WHO: Disease has caused 11 deaths; 30,000 have possible symptoms


Updated: 11:04 a.m. PT Sept 25, 2007
GENEVA - 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, WHO said. Eleven people have died so far.

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

[Botany]

1. The surge is working

So how many more will die and or get sick in Iraq because of this?

[katty]

2. link in article to more cases-spreads like wildfire-if it's cholera,

well, that's it.

[Botany]

3. more people died of Cholera in the U.S. civil war than bullets

no clean water and millions of homeless ....



this bacteria will be spread all over.

[katty]

4. yes, that's true--it was bound to happen sooner or later, now

bush has his surge...will he do anything when this spills over into our troops?-very likely it could happen.

[Botany]

5. add this to

1 million dead
2 million homeless
2.25 million who have left the country (the educated class)
the Turkish & Iranian attacks on the Kurdish regions
the 8 million facing hunger, little water, and no medical care

[katty]

6. indeed