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 The World Health Organization has warned that the collapse of
Syria's health system during its four-year civil war has led to the
spread of disease. Typhoid, hepatitis and the polio virus have taken
hold in the country.
SANA said the two men were from the southern province of Sweida,
where government forces and rebels have clashed. Their deaths were
reported by the head of Communicable and Chronic Diseases Department
in Sweida, it said.
In 2009-10, swine flu spread from central Mexico around the world.
Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
estimated that it killed 284,000 people in 12 months.
More than 220,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, which
began in March 2011 with popular protests against President Bashar
al-Assad and spiraled into civil war after a crackdown by his
security forces.
(Reporting by Oliver Holmes; editing by John Stonestreet)
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