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Afghanistan
Cholera, Malaria Cases Increase in Helmand
2012-07-15
Health officials in Afghanistan's southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
 province said the incidence of cholera and malaria is on the rise.

Head of the provincial health department Yar Mohammad Naseri said that with the onset of more dry and increasingly hot weather, the number of cases of serious diarrhoea has also risen. He said that the residents are not taking enough precautionary hygiene measures.

He also emphasised that to protect people from malaria infections, the health department has distributed mosquito nets for the residents in the past few years, despite suggestions that the government had not done enough to prevent the disease.
The real answer is DDT to wipe out the malaria-bearing mosquito, but some people think birds are more important.
"We accept that these diseases have increased. We had distributed anti mosquito nets for the residents of Helmand which works for five years but the people thought it was only for a year," Naseri told TOLOnews Thursday.

As the summer temperatures rise, particularly in southern provinces of the country, Naseri said people should consider taking more steps in terms of hygiene.
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