Authors: Joan Stephenson
Publish Date: 2009/01/21
Volume: 301, Issue: 3, Pages: 263-263
Abstract
As the death toll from Zimbabwes worstever cholera outbreak approached 1000 in midDecember the medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières Doctors Without Borders said the outbreak could last for months http//wwwdoctorswithoutbordersorg/news/articlecfmid=3223As of December 15 the number of suspected cholera cases in Zimbabwe was 18 413 with 978 deaths according to the United Nations UN Just days earlier UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Kimoon sharply disputed remarks by Zimbabwes president Robert Mugabe that the outbreak was under control UN agencies were appealing for nearly 24 million to bring the epidemic under control
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