Cholera Spreads From Northern Iraq to Baghdad
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 21 -- An outbreak of cholera has spread from northern Iraq to Baghdad, infecting at least 1,500 people, the World Health Organization announced Friday.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said Wednesday.
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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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The first cases of cholera appeared in Baghdad on Thursday, in a sign the epidemic that has already sickened thousands in northern Iraq is now spreading.
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Iraqi police say a tanker has exploded north of Baghdad, killing six people and injuring more than 100.
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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss aid efforts for Asia's tsunami-hit countries were  warned the death toll could double to about 300,000 unless  action was taken this week to prevent disease.  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had  sent emergency treatment to the region for diarrheal diseases  such as cholera and dysentery but while the aid was reaching  many places, access to safe drinking water remained inadequate.
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Basra, Iraq -- The British military says its troops have begun heading north to Baghdad from their base in southern Iraq. Large flatbed trucks can be seen carrying armored British vehicles up a road through Iraq&#39;s southern desert.
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the town of Anah, 260 km (163 miles) northwest of Baghdad, near the Syrian border. He said 20 people. had been wounded and the death toll could rise.
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More than 550 people have fallen victim to a cholera epidemic so far this year in Lubumbashi, capital of Congo's mineral-rich Katanga province, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday.
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Three people have died after an outbreak of cholera in a suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
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At least 275 children in southern Iraq have been infected with a disfiguring skin disease, an outbreak some health officials are blaming on the war's devastating effect on the public health system.
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Vietnam plans to vaccinate 400,000 children in the capital against cholera, and officials warned Wednesday that cases of acute diarrhoea could flare up again after an outbreak sickened thousands last year.
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BAGHDADâAn outbreak of hepatitis E has infected at least 60 people south of the capital, the Iraqi Health Ministry said yesterday.
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A column of smoke is seen from behind Baghdad&#39;s Green Zone Thursday, Nov. 25 2004. Several explosions echoed Thursday across Iraq&#39;s capital of Baghdad, as thick black smoke rose above the heavily protected Green Zone.
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More than 1,500 people have cholera in Iraq and the outbreak has spread from the north to Baghdad, where conditions are ripe for the disease to thrive, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.