Deadly Cholera Outbreak In Iraq

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6970130.stm

[MissWaverly]

1. Please, get the truth out, Iraq is not better every day

[Solly Mack]

2. ...

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[ClayZ]

3. It just keeps getting worse! K and R

[emilyg]

4. K&R

[EFerrari]

5. Snip:

Deadly cholera outbreak in Iraq

An outbreak of cholera in two northern Iraqi provinces has killed eight people and infected 80 others, the Kurdistan Regional Government has said.

Kurdish Health Minister Zeryan Othman said local health authorities were also treating 4,250 suspected cases of the disease in Sulaimaniya and Tamim.

Specialist teams and emergency aid have been sent to the affected regions.

Serious problems with water quality and sewage treatment, worsened by crumbling local infrastructure, are being blamed.

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Welcome to the Empire. :sarcasm:

[struggle4progress]

6. UNICEF says diarrheoa, typhoid among threats to children in Iraq (Jun 03)

BAGHDAD, 8 June 2003 - The health situation of children in Iraq remains tenuous. Many children continue to suffer from high rates of diarrhoeal disease, much higher than this time last year. While diarrhoea may sound trivial, in Iraq it kills. Prior to the latest war, 70 per cent of all child deaths were due to diarrhoea and respiratory infections.

One of the most deadly of diarrhoeal related disease is cholera. In Basra there are now 66 confirmed cases of cholera, of which 79 per cent are children under 5 years old, and 59 per cent of victims are girls.

There are also clinically confirmed cases of cholera in Nassariya and Missan, but these cases have yet to be confirmed through laboratory tests. This is due to a serious lack of the required medical equipment in the south and throughout Iraq as a whole.

Dysentery and typhoid are also becoming a real problem for children. Dysentery is spread through contaminated water and food. The bacteria lodges in the intestines of a child and erodes the intestinal wall leading to bloody diarrhoea. In the past few weeks, doctors at hospitals around Baghdad have told UNICEF they are seeing an increase in the cases of dysentery ...

http://www.unicef.org/newsline/2003/03bnjune8wus.htm

[struggle4progress]

7. Children Pay Cost of Iraq's Chaos (Nov 04)

Malnutrition Nearly Double What It Was Before Invasion

By Karl Vick
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 21, 2004; Page A01

BAGHDAD -- Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led an invasion of the country 20 months ago, according to surveys by the United Nations, aid agencies and the interim Iraqi government.

After the rate of acute malnutrition among children younger than 5 steadily declined to 4 percent two years ago, it shot up to 7.7 percent this year, according to a study conducted by Iraq's Health Ministry in cooperation with Norway's Institute for Applied International Studies and the U.N. Development Program. The new figure translates to roughly 400,000 Iraqi children suffering from "wasting," a condition characterized by chronic diarrhea and dangerous deficiencies of protein.

... Mehdi and other analysts attributed the increase in malnutrition to dirty water and to unreliable supplies of the electricity needed to make it safe by boiling. In poorer areas, where people rely on kerosene to fuel their stoves, high prices and an economy crippled by unemployment aggravate poor health ...

By one count, 60 percent of rural residents and 20 percent of urban dwellers have access only to contaminated water. The country's sewer systems are in disarray ...



http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A809-2004Nov20?language=printer

[struggle4progress]

8. Iraq Waterways Choked With Deadly Pollution (Sep 05)

http://www.albionmonitor.com.nyud.net:8090/0509a/iraqtrash.jpg

... Pediatrician Mahdi Muhammed said most of the patients he sees have respiratory, urinary and digestive problems linked to pollution. He said many children contract cholera and typhoid from poking through garbage piles ...

Iraq's Ministry of Health estimates that 250 to 300 metric tons of garbage are dumped every day into rivers and canals across the country. A new study by researchers at the University of Baghdad says hospitals are the worst offenders, with many of them dumping their trash -- which often includes medical waste -- into the waterways ...

Nine out of 10 Iraqis do not have adequate access to safe drinking water, according to a report by the country's Human Rights Documentation Center ...

Because Mosul lacks a proper sewage network and a good system for disposing of garbage, much of the waste from both businesses and homes ends up in the water system. Nor does the government have the resources to treat the water properly ...

http://www.albionmonitor.com/0509a/iraqpollutiondeadly.html

[struggle4progress]

9. Cholera outbreak in Iraq blamed on water (Aug 06)

BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Five people have died and 2,000 others have been infected with cholera in northern Iraq because of poor water quality, U.N. officials reported.

UNICEF said that since Monday 500 people in the Sulaimaniya province and the nearby Kirkuk region have been hospitalized with severe diarrhea, CNN reported.

UNICEF said it was rushing emergency water purification kits to the region, as 47 cases have been confirmed as epidemic cholera. The bacterial disease is caused by drinking contaminated water and attacks the intestinal tract.

Aid workers have issued appeals in the area for parents to keep children away from areas where there is raw sewage and to boil water and wash hands with soap, the report said ...

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/99119

[Disturbed]

10. When the troops & Mercs start contracting these then

something will be done about it.