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이라크서 콜레라 사례 2100명 확인돼 (E)


유엔 세계보건기구는 25일, 이라크에서 2,100여명의 콜레라 사례가 확인됐다고 밝혔습니다.

세계보건기구는 지난 한달동안 주로 이라크 북부지역에서 약 3만명의 급성설사 환자가 발생했다고 말했습니다. 지금까지 모두 11명이 사망했습니다.

세계보건기구의 클레어-리스 셰이나 콜레라 조정관은 공식적인 사망자수가 비교적 낮다고 지적했습니다.

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The World Health Organization says there are more than 21-hundred confirmed cases of cholera in Iraq.

The Geneva-based United Nations agency says an estimated 30-thousand people have been afflicted with acute diarrhea in the past month, most of them in northern Iraq. Eleven have died.

WHO cholera coordinator Claire-Lise Chaignat said today (Tuesday) the official death toll is relatively low.

But health authorities warn the outbreak is spreading and that its dissemination to previously unaffected areas remains highly possible.

Cholera is an acute gastro-intestinal infection that can be spread through ingestion of contaminated water and food. Provincial authorities have chlorinated public water supply systems and undertaken other measures to contain the outbreak.

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