Cholera gripping Zimbabwe

Fri, 02/13/2009 - 13:53
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Zimbabwe's rainy season will likely compound the country's cholera epidemic. The water-borne disease has claimed more than 3,500 lives in the southern African country in just six months. Water and sanitation services have all but collapsed due to Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis – creating conditions in which this deadly, but entirely treatable disease has spread. Davidson Makanga reports from neighboring South Africa.

 

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