Iraq oil city reports 100 new cholera cases a day

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Hospitals in Iraq's northern oil hub are reporting up to 100 new cases of cholera a day as the bacterial disease continues to spread across the country, a top medical official said Monday.

Doctor Amir al-Khuzai, the health ministry's pointman in tackling the crisis, said the number of infections in Kirkuk had risen to 2,069 at the weekend from 1,671 earlier in the week.

"This means that we are seeing almost 100 new cases a day in the hospitals of Kirkuk," he told AFP. snip

Khuzai said that the latest health ministry statistics up to Sunday indicated that a total of 2,839 people had now become infected with the disease.

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1. Well, ain't that the shits? Poor people--if it's not one problem, it's another.