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An outbreak of plague in the Syrian army
Posted by JSS on Jul 2nd, 2010 and filed under Arab World and Lebanon , East . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response, or trackback to this article

According to the Syrian opposition in exile, the Syrian president, who is visiting Latin America, ordered the shutdown of all Syrian military exercises, due to a plague that currently affect a large number of military , especially conscripts doing their classes. Drinking water and food in the database, and the heat wave currently affecting, are the cause of the epidemic.

Touched by a terrible drought, this epidemic (which reminds us of the Middle Ages) could make extensive damage in the elements of the Syrian army in the coming weeks. Military sources are rejected completely the possibility of outside intervention that could be causing the epidemic.

Syria is currently facing the worst drought in forty years. Hundreds of thousands of people are experiencing food shortage, cattle farmers were decimated, and many people are fleeing the country. Already, nearly 60 000 small livestock owners have lost all their animals and 50,000 others have lost 50-60% of their cattle

The United Nations has launched, there ‘a few days, a call for help for six months nearly a million people affected by drought in Syria.
The World Food Programme (WFP) started in early June to distribute food rations to some 200,000 people in north-eastern Syria hit by drought for three years, according to a press release dated June 20, 2010 (1).
Anaemia, malnutrition and diarrhea are increasing, especially among children under five and pregnant women.

If the early symptoms of plague have occurred in the military (The Syrian army has 215,000 men, plus 300,000 reservists) it is probable that the soldiers involved in the spread of the disease, especially with the approach of Ramadan when the great number of soldiers return to their villages.
In many regions, mainly in Africa and Asia, are still threatened by the plague because, as we recall these new cases of plague in Syria, the extinction of the disease is not yet signifiée.C easterly 1910 was the last plague epidemic in Europe. Throughout the centuries and around the world, outbreaks of plague are the source of more than 200 million people.

The Arab-fundamentalist propaganda soon speak of a “Zionist conspiracy” behind the epidemic of plague? For a few days then we will forget Gazastrophe fiction and propaganda about the “freedom flotilla.” But for how long?

Today 200,000 people in north-eastern Syria are living through aid that is distributed to those most affected by the drought through a grant provided by the UN and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Commission European. When will “Flotilla Muslim against hunger in Syria?
Namely, if in the end, once and for all, this new plague reaches or does not bassists Syrian perish? Many of us in any case to be desired.
Ftouh Souhail Tunis