The year’s first cholera case was diagnosed here today. The patient is a 23-year-old Arab from Hebron. The Israeli health authorities were uncertain of the origin of the case. Last year there were 485 cholera cases in Israel and in the occupied Arab territories–105 Jews and 380 Arabs–with four of them fatal. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today from very reliable Health Ministry sources that there have been outbreaks of cholera in at least two neighboring Arab states, which were said to be concealing their cases–in violation of world Health Organization rules–so as not to discourage tourism. But Dr. Daniel Brachott, head of the Health Ministry’s infectious diseases department, told the JTA that WHO will henceforth list cholera cases without reliance on governmental reports.
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