Word: kerch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reported. At about the same time, El Tor also cropped up in Egypt. After that, the disease spread rapidly, partly as an unhappy dividend from the Middle East conflict. Soviet sailors returning from Egyptian ports may have carried El Tor to the Soviet Black Sea ports of Odessa and Kerch, where 101 cases have been reported. More recently, the disease has cropped up in Jordan, Iraq and Syria. Israel has reported 33 cases, Lebanon 30 and Libya 28. A Togolese businessman died of cholera in Ghana last week, and medical authorities in Kenya have isolated a suspected cholera victim...