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Zimbabwe Battles To Curb Rising Cholera Crisis
"The cholera outbreak has taken a national dimension. Newer outbreaks are reported from all provinces." the UN's Geneva-based Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.
"The total number of suspected cholera cases in the country stands at 6,072 cases and 294 deaths," as of November 18, it said.
By Friday, Zimbabwe's health authorities said the water-borne disease had spread to nine of the troubled southern African nation's 10 provinces.
"The ministry is battling to control unprecedented cholera outbreaks affecting the country," Health Minister David Parirenyatwa told the Herald newspaper, a government mouthpiece.
The UN said the latest outbreaks were reported from Beitbridge in the Matabele South province with 700 cases and 20 deaths. Health facilities in the area are reporting an admission rate of 200 patients per day, OCHA said.
"The spatial distribution of outbreaks will most likely continue to expand as well as the number of people infected," given the worsening water and sanitation situation in densely-populated areas, it warned.
While an official death toll was unavailable Friday, the US ambassador to Harare James McGee, a vocable critic of President Robert Mugabe's regime, told reporters on Thursday that the disease had claimed 294 lives.
"We have a very bad, dire political situation that's ... leading to a food and health emergency, man-made, in this country," McGee told reporters in Washington via a satellite television link.
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