Zimbabwe: Rural Areas Exposed By Lack of Cholera Knowledge
March 31st, 2009 | IRIN
Bindura — A lack of understanding about cholera and a failure to adapt social customs in rural Zimbabwe to curb the waterborne disease is ensuring that the death toll will keep rising.Cholera has rampaged through Zimbabwe since August 2008, killing more than 4,000 people and infecting over 91,000, and although the World Health Organization (WHO) recently said reports of new cases were slowing, it warned that the “the risk of the outbreak restarting” was “real”.
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