The death toll from its outbreak has reached 29 cholera in several provinces of Syria. The UN is talking about the worst epidemic of this disease in the country for years.
Since the epidemic first appeared in the country, cholera cases have reached 338, with most infections and deaths occurring in Aleppo province, the Ministry of Health noted. 230 cases and 25 deaths have been recorded there.
The UN had announced earlier this month that the epidemic possibly due to the use of contaminated water to irrigate crops and the consumption of unsuitable water from the Euphrates River that runs through Syria from north to east. The highly contagious disease has also spread to northern and northeastern areas of Syria controlled by Kurds and opposition groups, where millions of internally displaced people have taken refuge after more than a decade of war.
Suspected cholera cases rose to 2,092 in the northeast Syria, announced the US-based Intenational Rescue Committee (IRC), which operates there. The organization complained that the officially recorded cases are much less than the real ones, APE-MPE reports, citing Reuters.
Extensive damage to Syria’s national water supply network after years of war forces much of the population to rely on unsafe imgs. Before this cholera outbreak broke out, the water crisis had caused an increase in cases of diarrhea, malnutrition and skin diseases in Syria, according to the World Health Organization.
Source: News Beast
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