Cholera
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Due to increasing conflicts, instability, and humanitarian crises, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the outbreak of cholera in many countries, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Increasing infections The number of ch...
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By AFPThousands of tiny makeshift shelters hug the road leading north out of Goma, a symptom of the vast humanitarian crisis gripping DR Congo's turbulent east.Since late October, many tens of thousands of people have flocked towards the relative saf...
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By AFPHuman Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Turkey of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast.Syria has recorded 81 deaths and more than 24,000...
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By AFPMarwa Khaled's teenage son was hospitalised with cholera after drinking polluted water in Lebanon's impoverished north -- yet she still buys the same contaminated water, the only kind she can afford."People know (the water is contaminated), but...
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Cholera has started spreading in the Middle Eastern countries of Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, amid a UN warning of a “serious threat.”The reason behind the disease outbreak is acute water scarcity that resulted from drought and the decrease of the Euphr...
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By AFPLebanon has recorded its first death from cholera as cases surge after an outbreak of the extremely virulent disease in neighbouring Syria, the health ministry said Wednesday.Lebanon has recorded 26 cases of cholera this month, as the country s...
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By AFPSyria's health ministry has recorded 39 deaths from cholera and nearly 600 cases in an outbreak spreading in the war-ravaged country that the United Nations warned is "evolving alarmingly"."In Syria, more than 10,000 suspected cases of cholera...
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Cholera disease has swept through northeastern Syria, claiming the lives of dozens of people and infecting hundreds of others, amid fears of striking other areas of the country.Cholera is a disease caused by a bacterial infection via contaminated foo...
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By AFPThe World Health Organization warned Tuesday of a "very high" risk of cholera spreading across Syria after the country recorded its first cases since 2009."The risk of cholera spreading to other governorates is very high," the WHO said, after c...
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By AFPThree people have died of cholera in northern and eastern Syria, the region's Kurdish administration said Saturday, appealing for international help to contain the outbreak.Health authorities warned of "a large number of cholera cases in Raqa p...
