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US troops in iraq facing new threat:37 human anthrax cases outbreak
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by Amitjha | October 12, 2008 at 10:53 pm
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The peace keeping force in Iraq is facing new threat in the form of Anthrax out break in northern province of iraq. Although no cases has been reported in troops , but the way it is spreading in humans , definitaly it is putting troops in very high stress.
Thirty-seven people have been infected by anthrax in northern Iraq in the country's first outbreak of the disease since the 1980s, the health minister in the Kurdish autonomous region said Sunday.
Health Minister Ziryan Othman said the disease appeared to have been passed on from livestock. The first human case of the outbreak was discovered in remote Dahuk province last month.
None of the reported cases had yet proven fatal, he told Reuters. The 37 cases in humans have all affected the patients' skin, rather than their lungs or internal organs, as occurs in more serious anthrax cases.
Othman said the authorities have ordered that infected animals be slaughtered and buried, while animals not yet infected should be vaccinated.
"The health and agriculture ministries are trying to contain this disease, because if it is spread among animals and then is transferred to humans it will have a negative effect on the economy," he said.
Anthrax, which can be deadly in humans in some forms, is an endemic disease in cattle. Anthrax spores can be used as a biological weapon, but there has been no suggestion that this has been the case in the outbreak in Iraq.
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at 00:06 on October 13th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 00:38 on October 13th, 2008
Thanks A namika,
The troops in iraq are no doubt facing hardest moments , they are fighting the battle where they are going to gain nothing excepy the death of there fellows and pride for Bush .
at 04:24 on October 13th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. Lets stop the conspiracy theories before they start the biological weapon Anthax is full blown and would not just effect the skin. I am sure this outbreak will be contained and the experts will or have been called in.