Iraq reveals a “worrying rise” in hemorrhagic fever injuries

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و .علنت Iraqi Ministry of HealthThe latest statistics on the hemorrhagic fever virus in the country, which amounted to 136 cases.

A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, said in a brief statement, Saturday, that "The latest hemorrhagic fever statistic reached 136 confirmed cases, including 23 deaths".

It is indicated that hemorrhagic fever virus Discovered for the first time in Iraq In 1979, it causes death with a rate of between 10 to 40 percent of injuries.

The virus is transmitted to humans through poultry and livestock, as well as between humans through direct contact with the blood, secretions or body fluids of the infected person.

Experts fear it might spread the disease On a larger scale in Iraq, especially in light of weak control in the markets cattle Poultry and the spread of primitive methods of slaughter and sale of meat.

Slaughtered livestock hung on public roads and in neighborhoods are spread in Iraqi cities, and blood drips from them while flies hover over them, where contaminated meat and causing several diseases are sold.

It should be noted that there is no cure for viral hemorrhagic fevers, but there are vaccines for a few of them, while prevention remains the best way to confront it until scientists discover additional vaccines for it.

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و .علنت Iraqi Ministry of HealthThe latest statistics on the hemorrhagic fever virus in the country, which amounted to 136 cases.

The spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, said in a brief statement, Saturday, that “the latest statistics for hemorrhagic fever amounted to 136 confirmed cases, including 23 deaths.”

It is indicated that hemorrhagic fever virus Discovered for the first time in Iraq In 1979, it causes death with a rate of between 10 to 40 percent of injuries.

The virus is transmitted to humans through poultry and livestock, as well as between humans through direct contact with the blood, secretions or body fluids of the infected person.

Experts fear it might spread the disease On a larger scale in Iraq, especially in light of weak control in the markets cattle Poultry and the spread of primitive methods of slaughter and sale of meat.

Slaughtered livestock hung on public roads and in neighborhoods are spread in Iraqi cities, and blood drips from them while flies hover over them, where contaminated meat and causing several diseases are sold.

It should be noted that there is no cure for viral hemorrhagic fevers, but there are vaccines for a few of them, while prevention remains the best way to confront it until scientists discover additional vaccines for it.

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