Syria's cholera outbreak largely contained: health official

STORY: Syria's cholera outbreak largely contained: health official DATELINE: Nov. 9, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:24 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Ibn al-Nafis hospital in Damascus 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ZUHAIR AL-SAHWI, Syrian Health Ministry official 3. various of the hospital laboratory 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ZUHAIR AL-SAHWI, Syrian Health Ministry official 5. various of Zuhair al-Sahwi speaking STORYLINE: Cholera infections in Syria have largely been contained following the measures taken by the health authorities countrywide and at border points, a Syrian health official said on Tuesday. Zuhair al-Sahwi, director of communicable and chronic diseases at the Syrian Health Ministry, made the remarks after a tour for the journalists to the Ibn al-Nafis hospital in the Syrian capital Damascus. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ZUHAIR AL-SAHWI, Syrian Health Ministry official "Currently, the epidemiological curve of cholera (in Syria) is flattening, which indicates that the suspected cases h