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| Iraq combats cholera with massive vaccination campaign |
| 2015-11-02 |
| [AlAhram] Iraq is carrying out a major vaccination campaign to combat a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 2,200 people, the health ministry said on Sunday. The campaign, focused on vaccinating people displaced by conflict including the war with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, began Saturday, health minister Adeela Hammoud Hussein said in a statement. The World Health Organisation shipped more than 500,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine to Iraq, enough to treat some 250,000 people. According to the WHO, there have been more than 2,200 cases of cholera in the current outbreak. In the Jamiyah area of western Baghdad at a camp made up of rows of white tents, a medical team in a small room administered doses of the vaccine to both adults and children. They were then given cards with their names and the date of their vaccination, and told to return after two weeks. Akram Meshal, a 25-year-old from the city of Ramadi, which was seized by the jihadist IS in May, came with his wife and two children to be vaccinated. "I really wanted to be one of the first families to receive the vaccine, because I am afraid," Meshal said. "I tremble when I hear of cholera, especially among the displaced," he said. Iraqi authorities have blamed the cholera outbreak mostly on the poor quality of water caused by the low level of the Euphrates. And the WHO has said that: "The provision of safe water, sanitation and personal hygiene will continue to be the critical cholera prevention and control measures." After a short incubation period of two to five days, cholera causes severe diarrhoea, draining the body of its water. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... says the number of people displaced by conflict in Iraq since the start of 2014 has topped 3.2 million. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 like shitting downhill from your water source? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-11-02 21:56 |
| #5 World Health Organization recommends their use in combination with other measures You mean like cleaning up the water? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-11-02 16:59 |
| #4 The only expiration date the WHO cares about, Skid, is the one on their graft pipeline. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-11-02 12:46 |
| #3 500k doses for a 2k outbreak? That's, uh...divide by 2, carry the 3,... Unless they (WHO?) are projecting a major epidemiological event that's a lot of $$ changing hands for purchase, transport, storage, administration and application. Wonder what the expiration date on the juice is? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-11-02 12:26 |
| #2 From Wikipedia Cholera vaccines are vaccines that are effective in preventing cholera.[1] They are about 85% effective during the first six months and 50–60% effective during the first year.[1][2][3] The effectiveness decreases to less than 50% after two years. When a significant portion of the population is immunized benefits from herd immunity may occur among those not immunized. The World Health Organization recommends their use in combination with other measures among those at high risk. Two doses or three doses of the oral form are typically recommended.[1] An injectable form is available in some, but not all, areas of the world.[2][1] So the main purpose of a cholera vaccine is to prevent it spreading once it starts. It's not a permanent fix. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-02 11:05 |
| #1 Vaccination? Cholera is a bacterial disease. The only possible way to get it is to drink water that humans have shit in. Cholera is highly susceptible to every every hygiene method known to man. |
| Posted by: Elmavish Panda1401 2015-11-02 06:28 |