What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?
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New research has found that there are 50 000 more people with cholera across East Africa in each year that El Niño is around.
50 000 more cases in East Africa each year, and 30 000 fewer cases in Southern Africa each year, when phenomenon is in full force
Violence has contributed to the epidemic; aid agencies can’t travel freely and are removing nonessential staff.
Women said they couldn’t afford to boil water and cook, so a local inventor rolled up his sleeves.
Two children, aged five and 10, had been quarantined with cholera at Beitbridge District Hospital, according to a media report.
Five years after a cholera outbreak killed more than 4 000 people Human Rights Watch says the city is at significant risk of another outbreak.
A bursting population is burdening the city’s old infrastructure as pipes leak and raw sewage gets through, leaving the water unsafe for consumption.
The city has had to decommission its major supply dams as water levels fall to drastic levels.
The health minister has returned to the portfolio he left in crisis five years ago.
A recent tribunal hearing has shown that political ties stopped the top UN boss in Zimbabwe from acting on outbreak warning.
The UNDP’s new resident coordinator in South Africa has come under fire for his role in Zimbabwe’s disastrous cholera outbreak in 2008.
Flooding, displacement and poor access to humanitarian aid are creating an ideal environment for the surge of cholera in Mozambique, warns an NGO.
MSF has launched a treatment and education programme to curb cholera in Haiti and is considered the deadliest cholera outbreak in the world, claiming 7000 lives
NGOs singled out as Haiti struggles to recover after quake.
As Haitians mark the anniversary of the devastating earthquake in 2010, hope has given way to a crushing sense of bitterness and despair.
Cholera is just the latest disaster to be linked to the United Nations in Haiti — and the country’s election won’t change the nature of the mission.
Violent protests erupted in Haiti over a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 1 000 lives, sparking clashes with UN peacekeepers.
Haiti desperately sought on Wednesday to halt a cholera epidemic that threatens to spiral out of control after reaching the capital’s crowded slums.
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/ 24 October 2010
More than a dozen have died of cholera in central Haiti, adding to concerns that the outbreak is edging closer to the densely populated capital.
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/ 23 October 2010
Quake-hit Haiti and its aid partners fought on Friday to stem a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 200 people and sickened more than 2 000.
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/ 22 October 2010
Haitian President Rene Preval said on Friday cholera had killed at least 138 people in the quake-hit country’s central region.
The death toll from the worst cholera outbreak in northern Cameroon in 10 years has risen to 170, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
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/ 23 October 2009
At least 59 people have died of cholera in the past two months in Tanzania, a senior Health Ministry official said on Friday.
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/ 18 October 2009
Workers trudge through foul-smelling mud in a trench seeping with clean drinking water and raw sewage in one of the Harare neighbourhoods.
The first cases of what might be another cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe are being investigated by the World Health Organisation.