Public health alerts helped physicians recognise
cases of typhoid that were resistant to ceftriaxone, an antibiotic reserved to treat multidrug - resistant infections.
Six months after the bombing ended, with the Red Cross and other aid bodies trying to repair water installations, Nembrini says that the number
of cases of waterborne diseases such as
typhoid, hepatitis and diarrhoea had tripled, while infant mortality had at least doubled.