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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 622

cholera

Illustrative: A view of the Yarmouk River in northern Israel, February 11, 2021. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
November 11, 2022, 12:49 pm
Cholera found in northern Israel reservoir for first time after outbreak in Syria
Health Ministry says no danger to public after early detection, swift action taken; disease likely spread from northern neighbor, where it has killed 92 people since September
By Michael Horovitz and Agencies
A Syrian child walks in a stream of open sewage in the Salaheddine camp in northwestern Syria on September 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
November 5, 2022, 5:38 pm
Conflict and economic crisis fuel cholera surge across Middle East
Lebanon alone reports over 2,000 cases, 18 deaths since last month, as bacterial infection sweeps region
By Kareem Chehayeb
A mother sits with her child who was diagnosed with cholera in a hospital in Deir el-Zour, Syria, Thursday, September 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
October 8, 2022, 11:12 pm
After Syria, Lebanon also faces first cholera outbreak in years
Damascus has recorded 39 deaths from cholera and nearly 600 cases; Beirut looking at several suspected cases
By Agencies
A woman suffering from cholera receives treatment at the Al-Kasrah hospital in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, on 17, 2022 (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
September 22, 2022, 9:57 am
‘We drink it anyway’: War-torn Syria’s water woes peak with cholera outbreak
Dozens have died within weeks and cases mount into the hundreds; contaminated Euphrates river, a vital source for five million people, is a major source of bacteria
By Delil Souleiman
Illustrative: A group of tourists with residents of Jerusalem, circa 1860-1880. (Library of Congress)
July 18, 2020, 2:14 pm
Montefiores risked cholera, quarantine for 19th-century Holy Land Jews
Philanthropists Moses and Judith traveled months over land and sea, dodging plague and bandits, while undergoing bouts of forced isolation across Middle East
By Sally Style
A member of the Israeli team sent to Zambia that included two physicians and one water engineer, in Lusaka, Jan. 8, 2018. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center via JTA)
January 11, 2018, 4:29 am
Israeli hospital sends delegation to cholera-stricken Zambia
Sheba Medical Center assisting where 60 people have died and 2,500 are infected in outbreak
By Josefin Dolsten
Children play amid the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sana'a, Yemen, September 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
July 10, 2017, 8:44 pm
Yemen cholera outbreak tops 300,000 suspected cases
International Red Cross says epidemic ‘continues to spiral out of control’ since it erupted in war-torn country in April
By AFP
A Yemeni man suspected of being infected with cholera receives treatment at a hospital in Sanaa on May 12, 2017. (AFP /Mohammed HUWAIS)
May 15, 2017, 12:22 pm
War-torn Yemen declares fresh emergency with cholera outbreak
International Committee of the Red Cross says the disease has killed 115 and left 8,500 ill since April 27
By AFP
Ampoule of Dr. Waldemar Haffkine's original cholera vaccine. Letter on left was written in 1989 by Central Zionist Archives employee. Letter on right is believed to have been written by Haffkine. (Courtesy Tower of David Museum)
January 20, 2015, 2:32 am
Original cholera vaccine turns up in Jerusalem
Buried in archives for decades, glass ampoule from 1892 now on display
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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