Woman dies of cholera in Baghdad

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Woman dies of cholera in Baghdad

Wed Sep 26, 1:20 PM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A woman has died of cholera in Baghdad, marking the first confirmed fatality in the capital since the bacterial disease began spreading from northern Iraq, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

Her death brings to 12 the number of Iraqis confirmed to have died of cholera since the outbreak was first detected on August 23.

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The Baghdad death was the second recorded in September after one person died in northern Nineveh province, Khuzai said.

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About 29,000 cases of acute watery diarrhoea have been recorded in Iraq over the past month, including 1,500 confirmed cases of cholera, mainly in the northern provinces of Sulaimaniyah, Arbil and Kirkuk, according to the World Health Organisation.

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