Thursday, April 30, 2009

African Cholera Epidemic Worsens

The Lancet Student � Archive � African Cholera Epidemic Worsens:
"...According to the UN Office for the Co-Ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), earlier this month, cholera cases have been reported in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Between the 3rd and 17th of April, these countries reported a total of 4,579 new cases of cholera, and in the two weeks before that 6,460 new cases were reported."

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