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DRC: Cholera kills 59, more than 2,000 infected in Katanga
An outbreak of cholera in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) province of Katanga killed 59 people and infected more than 2,000 in January, health officials said.
Lack of clean water is the main cause of cholera. (Image: Tiggy Ridley/IRIN)
The first cases of the epidemic were noticed between late December and early January in the town of Bukama and the cities of Likasi and Lubumbashi, farther south, according to Vital Mondinge Makuma, the official in charge of epidemics surveillance in the ministry of health.
