Zimbabwe: Cholera crisis? What cholera crisis?

In a move that has stunned Western observers, Mugabe has announced that that country's doctors have arrested the cholera epidemic.

12 Dec 2008

The announcement came as the UN announced the official death toll had risen to 783, and were making preparations to handle as many as 60,000 cases, and South Africa declared a cholera disaster on its border with Zimbabwe, as a spillover from the Zimbabwe epidemic.

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