Cholera
Zimbabwe cholera threat shifts to rural areas
Zimbabwe cholera threat shifts to rural areas HARARE - Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic is spreading to rural areas because people with the preventable disease have quit heavily infected urban centres for the countryside, an agency official said on Wednesday. United Nations agencies say cholera has killed nearly 2,500…
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Cholera kills more than 3,000 in Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic has killed 3,028 people since August and will probably surpass the UN’s worst-case scenario for the current outbreak of the disease, the United Nations humanitarian agency said.
At least 57,702 people have been infected with cholera, Elizabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the Geneva-based Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said yesterday. [...]
