The Iraqi health officials announced on friday the first case of death of Cholera in the city of Baghdad. The infection is originated from the northern part of Iraq, where it started this summer affecting 7000 people.
The International Herlad Tribune reports that Dr. Ryadh Abdul Ameer, director of the Basra Health Ministry said that some city waterworks are entirely without chlorine and continued sayng that “The carrier for this disease is 99 percent water, and chlorine is essential to disinfect the water,”.
Cholera (or Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera) is a severe diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans is by ingesting contaminated water or food. The major reservoir for cholera was long assumed to be humans, but some evidence suggests that it is the aquatic environment.
