“Everybody’s sick… right about the weather”?

Crystal Al-Nawar wrote on the MTV website:

“In many cases of diarrhea and vomiting, the invoice is not followed for the medicines that arrive,” this is what a pharmacist in one of the Lebanese regions said, stressing that the large -some of the patients who come to him suffering from intestinal problems and symptoms. So, “Is it the truth about the weather”?

Responding to the expert on bacterial environmental pollution, Dr. Munther Hamzah said, “Global warming has many health effects, including the spread of viral diseases from their habitat to new habitats through some types of mosquitoes, as well as floods due to heavy rains and the humanitarian disasters , movement, pollution and outbreaks. of diseases like cholera.”
Dr. Hamza, in an interview with MTV: “Diseases transmitted through exposure to contaminated water and food are endemic in Lebanon and the incidence rises in the summer, as high temperatures help germs to multiply proliferation of 24-hour electricity shortages in the country. ”The so-called Eastern Swiss rice.
The reasons are not limited to the weather alone, and here the expert says that “most Lebanese meet expatriates who visit them, especially in the summer, and a visitor almost escapes from being exposed to diarrhea and intestinal diseases… This shows that our situation is not comfortable and Lebanon has become a country that is being destroyed by the environment. ” Lebanon cannot afford. “
He also says that “typhoid fever is an endemic disease in Lebanon, and the bacteria responsible for it are produced directly from the stool of a sick person or during recovery from healthy people through water and foods on the contamination by the stool of those who are infected. .” It continues: “The spread of the typhoid bacteria known as Salmonella Typhi indicates that sanitary conditions and the amount of safe water and food available are not at the level required by the number of people infected hepatitis A, which is a viral disease that is also transmitted through… Water and food contaminated with the feces of infected people There are also parasites, especially single-celled ones, which are considered companions stable at the Lebanon.

We must also not forget the recent cholera outbreak in Lebanon, according to the expert, who says: “Thank God, it was controlled by the efforts of the Ministry of Health and the support of the Agency Global Health.”