The Iraqi Ministry of Health revealed developments on Thursday which it described as important and serious, in relation to the hemorrhagic fever in Iraq.

Hemorrhagic fever is a very dangerous disease and is transmitted by direct contact with infected livestock and by ticks, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, told Alsumaria News.

Al-Badr explained that Dhi Qar governorate in southern Iraq witnessed the highest number of infections with hemorrhagic fever, with 113 infections and 26 deaths, and Maysan governorate in southern Iraq came second with 31 infections and three deaths.