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Eight people have died from cholera in Sudan including six in the war-torn state of Blue Nile, according to the World Health Organisation, amid a surge in the number of reported cases. A total of 184 cases of cholera have been reported in the northeast African country over the past month, including 128 cases from […]
Officials in Mozambique say the number of cholera cases among survivors of a devastating cyclone has jumped to 139. The Portuguese news agency Lusa cites national health official Ussein Isse in a report late Thursday. The cholera outbreak had been declared a day earlier with just five confirmed cases. Cholera is a major concern for […]
Sixty-year-old Emma Zhakata winces, struggling to hold back tears as she relates how her husband, one of 32 cholera victims in Zimbabwe, died within hours of falling ill. She never suspected her 69-year-old husband, Wonder Zhakata, would die suddenly after complaining that he felt weak and was suffering stomach pain. After she rushed her husband […]
A cholera emergency has been declared in Zimbabwe’s capital after 20 people have died, the health minister said Tuesday. The deaths in Harare have many fearing a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands at the height of the southern African country’s economic problems in 2008. Water and sanitation infrastructure is collapsing. While touring a […]