Iraq confirms 13 cholera cases, scores more suspected


No deaths from cholera have yet been registered in Iraq, whose Sulaimaniyah and Kirkuk provinces are seeing cases of diarrhoea and vomiting. – AFP pic, June 19, 2022.

A CHOLERA outbreak in Iraq has infected at least 13 people and scores more suspected cases have been sent for analysis, most from the northern Kurdistan region, health officials said today.

“Ten cases of cholera have been recorded in the province” of Sulaimaniyah, said Sabah Hawrami, district health chief in the autonomous Kurdistan region.


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