Thursday, January 22, 2009
Cholera threat shifts to rural areas
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 people and infected more than 40,000 in the Southern African country, where the health and sanitation systems have collapsed due to an economic crisis.
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