Epidemics infection soaring in Iraq

The Epidemics Control Center, adepartment of the Iraqi Health Ministry, announced that the number of recorded epidemic infection during one month reached 35,274,which led to 304 deaths, the local newspaper Al Nahdhah reportedMonday.

An official at the Center said that the epidemics were dividedinto three types, namely, those that transfer through drinkingwater or food, those that transfer through breathing, and thosethat transfer in other ways.

He pointed out that eight cases of AIDS had been recorded sincethe toppling of the former regime, three of which were foreignersand the other five were Iraqis.

Iraq had totally eliminated all those diseases in the 1980s, butafter the imposing of the economic sanctions as a result of theGulf war, many unknown epidemics appeared in Iraq. (Xinhuanet)

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