Egyptian Chronicles: Cholera may be in Egypt right now !!

First here are some useful links about The Cholera from Wikipedia and Medicines sans frontieres

Link to Cholera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Doctors without Borders "Medicines sans frontieres

It started since last week when News agency declared that the Egyptian government represented in health minister was given a warning from "WHO" that Egypt must be careful ,especially the southern governates of the country as the Cholera disease is spread in the northern states of Sudan and there is a possibility it can be transferred to Egypt especially to Aswan as logically it is nearest to Sudan. Anyway as usual the government assured there is no danger to the end of that cheap talk , everything is under control ...bla ,bla ,bla , unfortunately this all proved to be wrong

Next day in El-Mansoura in delta in north Egypt , some strange happened what can be considered as mess poisoning for Retro Cholera many people in one village in El-Mansoura , the government immediately said that it was salmonella in contaminated water !! Despite if you read the Cholera page in Wikipedia ,you will find it is a water borne disease. Not that only two girls died 16 and 18 years old in the first two days , as far as I read the families weren't convinced by the official reports and wanted an autopsy but the governmental hospital refused , also they refused to give them the bodies !!!

The problem that is the mysterious infection spreading El-Mansoura and later in Qalyubia , the declared number of people infected with this so-called Salmonella reached to 100 !! Of course no official news about the infected people or the disease ,it is more than underestimating and blaming the contaminated water

Both diseases come from contaminated water but as I read Salmonella doesn't kill , in fact most infected people as it is written in the article of Wikipedia can recover without treatment , plus press unofficial reports indicate that most symptoms are from the Cholera's not the Salmonella's

Water is highly contaminated in El-Mansoura as all the reports officially and unofficially proved that sewage pipes are somehow reached to the water pipes !! Don't ask how ,Don't say it is so disgusting , but say it is not the fault of the poor people in the villages who can't buy one bottle of clean water because it costs now 5 Egyptian pounds per bottle, it is the fault of our blessed government .

For God Sake Egyptian Prvada aka El-Akhbar is speaking about the achievements of Mubarak ,what he did from improving in the countryside conditions in Egypt in the last 25 years, Electricity and water are in every village now "hurrrrrrrray" ,of course they didn't say that the water is highly containmented

And ironically the Salmonella here is innocent as the wolf from the blood of Jacob's son ,as as you read in Wikipedia article you will find that "The contamination usually occurs when untreated sewage is released into waterways or into groundwater, affecting the water supply, any foods washed in the water, and shellfish living in the affected waterway — it is rarely spread directly from person to person."

You know I asked my family as they are older than me and saw Egypt facing many different stuff like Cholera if Egypt once faced it , and they told me that in Nasser time Egypt had cholera yet the government denied and said that it was something from Summer Diseases !! Summer Diseases !!?? Well the legacy of the Nasserite is not finished yet on all levels and Lying on the People of the valley of the Nile turned to habit to addiction to something normal

If there is Cholera the government should say it and no need for denial ,it will make thing worst , you know sometimes ,I think there may be no Cholera but it is more of distrust condition between the gov't and the people , People always believe the gov't lies and hides the truth ,not because the people in Egypt believe in Conspiracy theories but experience showed that 90% of the time the gov't lies and hides the truth.

The only time the gov't and ministry of health didn't lie is with the Avian flu as it was controlled and monitored by WHO and the whole world was watching , so any lie could be exposed easily

The rumors of the Cholera in Egypt is discussed everywhere in the opposition newspapers which are hinting the possibility of having it

You can find coverage here :

From Filbalad :

From Al-Araby Nasserite opposition Newspaper:

From Egyptians without Borders