Eastern Syria, a new focus for the typhoid outbreak

Thousands in the province of Deir al-Zour get typhoid from drinking contaminated water, and the United Nations Forum organizes humanitarian Damascus.

Contaminated water ... Deadly diarrhea Damascus - the World Health Organization said Tuesday that disease typhoid outbreak in the area controlled by the Syrian opposition because of consumption of contaminated drinking water from the Euphrates River. The organization said the UN said an estimated 2,500 typhoid disease people in the northern province of Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria were contagious disease that causes diarrhea and can become fatal. The representative of the World Health Organization in Syria Elizabeth Hoff telephone "there is not enough fuel or electricity to run pumps so people drink water from the Euphrates River, which has become polluted by sewage probably." Not confirm the World Health Organization (WHO) reports of deaths so far due to injury typhoid. And typhoid fever, an infection of the intestines and bloodstream caused by salmonella bacteria. And people get sick after eating special foods or drinks with an infected person or drinking contaminated water. The spread of hepatitis C virus (a) is another disease transmitted by contaminated water and could become an epidemic in areas like Aleppo and Idlib and in crowded areas hosting the displaced in Damascus. Hoff said, "This happens when you see the water and sanitation collapsed completely. Share of between 50 and 70 people in the toilets in many places of refuge in Damascus." Hoff added that because of Deir al-Zour in the hands of the opposition, it can not Syrian government health authorities access to the region, but the World Health Organization adopted a local aid organizations to bring medical supplies. "The people responsible (opposition) need to start taking action in areas they control." Leishmania is spread - one of the causes of tropical diseases and is transmitted by sandflies and causes skin lesions resembling leprosy - in Syria and there are now 14 thousand cases in Hasaka province in the northeast of the country, according to the World Health Organization. Huff said, "It very large number and spread with the movement of people. Locally displaced and brought from Aleppo to Tartus." And hosts the United Nations Forum on humanitarian Syria in Geneva Tuesday attended by senior aid officials from UN agencies, the European Union and other humanitarian organizations. He said UN spokesman Jens Erque at a news briefing on Tuesday that the Syrian government agreed to publish three other international organizations for assistance. And allowed eight international non-governmental organizations to work so far. And attend Syria's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva talks but opposition representatives usually not be invited. And told Erque that Valerie Amos UN coordinator for humanitarian affairs, hosting the Forum met with Suheir Atassi, vice president of the National Coalition Syrian opposition Monday in the Swiss city. "We meet with them like any other partner involved in humanitarian work in Syria. They discuss various issues related to humanitarian work in Syria."