Deadly cholera outbreak in Iraq
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An outbreak of cholera in northern Iraq kills eight people and infects 80 others, the Kurdish authorities say.
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BAGHDAD (Iraq): As the intensity of skirmishes swelled on the soils of Iraq, dozens of people were put to death with toxic shots by the US helicopter gunship, which targeted the civilians, milling around a burning American vehicle in a Baghdad street on
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The World Health Organization said on  Saturday it was investigating &quot;an outbreak of an unknown  illness with a high mortality rate&quot; in the Democratic Republic  of the Congo.
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About 45 Iraqis have been killed during insurgent attacks on police stations in Baquba, a hospital morgue official has said. Three police stations were targeted by insurgents in the town 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
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At least 42 people, mainly children, have died in the last 24 hours from a suspected cholera outbreak in southern Somalia, doctors said Tuesday.
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The start of the rainy season in Angola   is spurring new fears over a cholera outbreak which has claimed   at least 2,200 lives in the southern African country since   February, health officials said on Wednesday.
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After thousands were sickened in northern Iraq, health officials have confirmed two cases in the capital, and another has been reported in Basra.
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Lab results have confirmed a deadly illness outbreak in southeastern Congo as Ebola fever, officials said Monday.
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Health officials have warned of a growing risk of disease from the filthy floodwaters inundating the Indonesian capital, where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes.
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A woman dies of cholera in Baghdad, officials say, the such first fatality there in the nation's recent outbreak.
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By Celia Hall, Medical Editor and Roger Highfield, Science Editor. Disease could kill as many along south Asia&#39;s stricken coasts as have been killed in the disaster unless clean water and medical help reaches
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Public health officials warn survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami face a grave danger, death and disease caused by filthy drinking water.
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A Baltimore public health expert says the Iraq war has killed more than 100,000 civilians, the Times of London reported Friday. Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins University led
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Health officials in northern Iraq are treating nearly 4,000 suspected cases of cholera and eight people have died so far, the health minister for Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said on Wednesday.
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Iraqi health officials confirmed the first cases of cholera in Baghdad today, in a sign that an epidemic that has infected approximately 7,000 people in northern Iraq is spreading south.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released Tuesday.
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A new survey conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Columbia University School of Nursing and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad suggests that civilian deaths have risen dramatically in Iraq since the country