Follow up: Nazik Issa
The Director of Public Health in Dhi Qar, in southern Iraq, revealed Dr. Hussein Riyad. The number of deaths due to hemorrhagic fever virus.
The doctor indicated that the number of deaths in Dhi Qar rose to six, including a woman, the last of whom was a 35-year-old man. And recorded regarding 28 cases of this disease.
Hemorrhagic fever leads to bleeding from the eyes, ears, and nose, leading to failure in the body’s organs. And then death.
A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, announced that since the beginning of the year, Iraq has recorded 40 cases of the viral disease, also known as Congo fever, most of them in the south.
