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Iraqi boys refresh themselves in a polluted canal in Basra, May, 2003. The World Health Organisation warned that hundreds of cases of cholera were possible after water and sewage infrastructure was damaged during the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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Iraqi boys refresh themselves in a polluted canal in Basra, May, 2003. The World Health Organisation warned that hundreds of cases of cholera were possible after water and sewage infrastructure was damaged during the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Photo by Damir Sagolj
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