A new death from hemorrhagic fever was recorded in Iraq

Today, Monday, Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq, recorded a death from hemorrhagic fever, which raises the number of deaths from this disease to nine across the country, according to a medical source.

"A 35-year-old man died of hemorrhagic fever," said the director of public health in Dhi Qar, in southern Iraq.

He added, "The number of deaths has risen to six, including a woman, and 28 cases of this disease, in Dhi Qar."

The last death occurred on Friday, a person who worked as a butcher, "who was practicing indiscriminate slaughter", according to the local authorities.

And the total number of deaths throughout Iraq reached nine cases.

The spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr. Saif Al-Badr, stated, at the end of last week, that Iraq had recorded 40 cases of the viral disease, also known as Congo fever, since the beginning of the year, most of them in the south.

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