WHO: Cholera in Iraq spreading (another death)

[ProSense]

WHO: Cholera in Iraq spreading

1 hour, 5 minutes ago

GENEVA - A cholera outbreak in Iraq is spreading, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, with new cases confirmed in Baghdad, Basra and for the first time three northern districts.

The number of confirmed cases has now reached 2,116, WHO said. Just a day earlier a WHO official put the number of confirmed cases at 1,652. Eleven people have died of the disease so far.

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The global health body estimates that more than 30,000 people have fallen ill with acute watery diarrhea, which may later be confirmed as cholera.

More than two-thirds of confirmed cases are in the northern province of Kirkuk, where cholera was first reported on Aug. 13, WHO said.

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A new case in Baghdad has taken the number of confirmed infections there to two, said WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib. On Monday a woman in the Iraqi capital died from the disease.

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[babylonsister]

1. I wonder how many soldiers might have this? I recently posted about

a soldier who hadn't urinated in a few days; he was rehydrated after being out on a mission via IVs, but he died. The Army wouldn't give this man's dad any info.

Here it is:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003644193

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. This will only get worse and more will die

They have very restricted access to the chlorine needed to purify the water supply, and that's not going to be changing in the near future.