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Cholera outbreak in Iraqi Kurdistan kills
two people, 27 cholera cases confirmed
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Two people die of Cholera in Iraqi Kurdistan
October 2, 2012
SULÊMANI,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Two people have died
of cholera in Iraqi Kurdistan's Sulaimaniyah
province in the second outbreak in five years, the
autonomous region's health minister said on Tuesday.
Two elderly people died of the disease last week in
Sulaimaniyah, Rekawt Hama Rasheed told AFP, adding
that there have been 27 confirmed cases so far.
Authorities are testing about 75 people for cholera
per day, Rasheed said. The Kurdistan region depends
on Baghdad to test the samples.
It is the second cholera outbreak to hit
Sulaimaniyah in the past five years.
An outbreak in the region in 2007 led to 2,000
infections and 24 deaths. Hardest hit was the
northern city of Sulaimaniyah, where 14 people died.
Iraq's Kurdistan Health Minister
confirmed in
September 2007 that the region had between 800 to
1000 confirmed cases of cholera, describing earlier
reports on the presence of 7,000 cholera cases in
the region as baseless.
In April 2008 a United Nations-backed international
conference took place in Iraq’s Kurdistan region to
draw up measures to prevent a recurrence of last
year’s cholera outbreak,www.ekurd.net
which saw more than 30,000 people fall ill with
acute watery diarrhoea.
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