An uninvited wedding guest

Until the traditional wedding season kicked off in July on Grand Comore, largest of the three islands that make up the Comoros archipelago, cholera was almost under control.

14 Aug 2007

"This is an outbreak - we have seen over 800 cases, and 14 people have died since February," Josefa Marrato, country representative for the UN's children fund (UNICEF), told IRIN.

Grand Comore, with 300,000 people, is home to almost half the Indian Ocean archipelago's total population.

Read the full article http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73706

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