Cholera outbreak spreads in Katanga

Clean water is crucial to avoiding cholera outbreaks. (Image: Laudes Martial Mbon/IRIN)

The disease has claimed the lives of 97 people and 4,029 have been infected since the first cases of the gastro-intestinal illness were reported in Katanga in September 2007, according to François Dumont, spokesman for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF-Belgium). The disease has spread quickly since the end of December.

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