Erika Edwards is a health and medical news writer and reporter for NBC News and 'TODAY.'
Clean drinking water is running out in Gaza, further threatening an already catastrophic situation. After Hamas' surprise terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, which killed more than 1,400 people, Israel cut off water, electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in retaliation.
Ahmad Moghrabi, the head of plastic surgery at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, said he has seen what he believes is a rise in the flu 'even among medical personnel,' though tests aren't available. Covid is also expected to 'rear its head' in Gaza, Spiegel said. 'As people are moving from north to south, it's going to be more and more congested and more and more ripe for infectious diseases.
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