IRAQ - May 7 - Doctors Report Cholera Outbreak.The World Health Organisation (WHO) says in a statement that doctors in Basra have reported 11 cases of cholera and there can be dozens more due to contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. water supplies and poor sanitation. The statement says: "Sewage is not being disposed of, garbage collection A software routine that searches memory for areas of inactive data and instructions in order to reclaim that space for the general memory pool (the heap). Operating systems may or may not provide this feature. is happening intermittently or not at all and people are using water from the polluted Shatt Al Arab Shatt al Arab (shät äl ä`räb), tidal river, 120 mi (193 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf, forming part of the Iraq-Iran border; the Karun is its chief tributary. river". Doctors at Al Tahrir Teaching Hospital and the Basra Children's Hospital reported seven and four cases of the highly contagious disease contagious disease n. See communicable disease. respectively. Results of tests to verify the doctors' diagnoses are due back in the coming days. The WHO said the laboratory tests had to be carried out in neighbouring Kuwait because the hospitals' own equipment was looted in the breakdown of law and order that followed the war. |
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