Is bloody diarrhoea worse than usual in Upper Kurram?

No. Bloody diarrhoea in Upper Kurram is well below its usual for these weeks.

17 cases a week, against a usual 38.

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Read from these four weekly reports by Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad:

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 38, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 7 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025
  • Week 39, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for Upper Kurram alone. What "usual" means.

When does bloody diarrhoea usually peak in Upper Kurram?

Not enough weeks of reports from Upper Kurram to show a season yet.

How does Upper Kurram compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Upper Kurram is 63rd of the 72 districts with enough cases to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.9×Abbottabad: 1.6×Badin: 1.7×Bajaur: 0.4×Bannu: 0.6×Barkhan: 1.1×Chagai: 0.7×Charsadda: 0.8×Chitral Lower: 1.1×Chitral Upper: 1.0×D. I. Khan: 1.6×Dadu: 1.0×Lower Dir: 1.0×Upper Dir: 1.2×Ghotki: 1.8×Hangu: 1.6×Haripur: 0.2×Harnai: 1.1×Hyderabad: 2.4×Jacobabad: 0.8×Jaffarabad: 0.2×Jamshoro: 1.4×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.6×Central Karachi: 1.7×East Karachi: 1.2×Korangi Karachi: 2.2×Malir Karachi: 0.6×West Karachi: 2.0×Karak: 2.5×Kashmore: 0.8×Kech: 1.3×Khairpur: 0.7×Kharan: 1.3×Khyber: 0.9×Killa Abdullah: 1.2×Kohat: 2.3×Kohistan Lower: 1.1×Kohistan Upper: 0.4×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.1×Lakki Marwat: 0.2×Larkana: 0.8×Lasbela: 1.0×Loralai: 1.4×Malakand: 1.4×Mardan: 2.2×Mastung: 0.5×Matiari: 1.0×Mirpur Khas: 1.3×Nasirabad: 1.1×Naushahro Feroze: 0.5×North Waziristan: 0.2×Nowshera: 1.1×Nushki: 0.8×Peshawar: 1.1×Sanghar: 0.8×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.7×Shangla: 0.6×Shikarpur: 0.9×Sohbatpur: 0.9×Sujawal: 0.2×Sukkur: 0.8×Swabi: 0.6×Swat: 1.5×Tando Allahyar: 0.6×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.7×Tank: 0.8×Tharparkar: 1.0×Thatta: 0.6×Tor Ghar: 0.8×Umer Kot: 1.1×Upper Kurram: 0.4×Usta Muhammad: 1.5×Upper Kurram

Across Pakistan as a whole, bloody diarrhoea is at 0.9× its usual; in Upper Kurram it is 0.4×.

What is bloody diarrhoea?

Diarrhoea with blood in it, also called dysentery. It is usually caused by germs in the gut, often a bacterium called Shigella.

Signs
Passing loose or watery poo three or more times a day, with blood in it. Fever and stomach pain are common.
How it spreads
Through food or drinking water dirtied by human or animal poo, and from person to person when hands are not washed.
How to protect yourself
Drink safe water, use a clean toilet, and wash hands with soap. Prepare and store food hygienically, and breastfeed babies only for their first six months.
Get medical help
Always see a health worker when there is blood in poo. Get help fast for signs of drying out: very sleepy, sunken eyes, unable to drink, or skin that springs back slowly when pinched.

In Dooram's words, from the World Health Organization. Source: WHO fact sheet: Diarrhoeal disease, read 8 October 2026. General information, not medical advice.

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A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.