June 29, 2022 00:17
Today, Tuesday, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced the registration of the first death from cholera and 17 new infections in the past 24 hours.
“The Kirkuk governorate recorded the first death from the disease today,” the ministry’s spokesman, Saif Al-Badr, said, according to what was quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency.
Al-Badr continued, “The ministry recorded, during the past 24 hours, 17 new cases of cholera, bringing the total number to 76 cases recorded for this year 2022.”
Ten days ago, it was announced that cholera cases had been recorded in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, the first in ten years in the region within the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq.
At that time, ten injuries were recorded in Sulaymaniyah governorate (north), two in Muthanna governorate (south), and one in Kirkuk governorate (north), according to the statement.
Al-Badr did not specify the causes of the new outbreak of the disease in Iraq.
The country witnessed the last major outbreak of the epidemic in 2015, according to the Ministry of Health. The outbreak at that time hit Baghdad and Babil Governorate, south of the capital, when hundreds of injuries were recorded.
Cholera, which is often caused by eating contaminated food or water, causes diarrhea and vomiting.
It usually appears in residential areas that suffer from scarcity of drinking water or lack of sewage networks.
The disease affects between 1.3 million and four million people annually in the world, and leads to the death of between 21 thousand and 143 thousand people.
Source: AFP
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