21.   Severe food shortages, caused by flooding in some parts and rain in others, were partly to blame for the upsurge in cholera cases, Pendame said.

22.   Several cholera cases are reported each year in the poverty-stricken Danube Delta area, where only a few sources of clean drinking water can be found.

23.   Thai cockles are the only ones being tested in this way because officials suspect the shellfish involved in the cholera cases all came from Thailand.

24.   The committee has banned visits to North Korea and food imports from there, although no cholera cases have been reported in the Russian region, the officials said.

25.   The governor of Baghdad province has ordered deliveries of drinking water to a town just outside the capital where cholera cases are rising, a newspaper said Monday.

26.   The hospital has created a special team to deal with the rash of cholera cases, Lim Kuan Joo, the hospital director, said in the statement.

27.   The new cholera cases are the third and fourth in Moscow this summer, Nadezhdin said.

28.   The number of confirmed cholera cases rose on Monday after two previously suspected cases were confirmed by the Department of Health.

29.   The warning followed confirmation of two separate cholera cases Tuesday and Wednesday.

30.   There were no confirmed deaths from the recent cholera cases.