Zimbabwe Cholera Surges As Neighbours Report Rising Cases

A man pushes his relative in a wheelbarrow to a cholera polyclinic, where victims of cholera are being treated in Harare, Zimbabwe. (AFP: Desmond Kwande)/ABC.net (Australia)
From Yahoo News/AFP:

HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak had killed more than 2,100 people on Wednesday, as neighbouring countries sounded the alarm over rising infections of the treatable, water-borne disease.

Latest figures from the World Health Organisation show that the death toll in Zimbabwe has now reached 2,106 since August while 1,642 new cases were added on in a single day. The total number of people infected has surged past 40,000.

Aid agencies have long warned of the threat of a regional spill-over from Zimbabwe from where scores of people migrate daily to neighbouring countries.

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More News On Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwean Government Denying Human Right to Health -- Washington Post

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