Zimbabwe: Bad roads lead to malaria outbreak

Decaying road infrastructure in Binga district, in Zimbabwe's province of Matabeleland North, prevented anti-malaria spraying teams from reaching the area, and is being blamed for an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease.

4 May 2010

A female anopheles mosquito feeding on a human host. (Image: James Gathany, via Wikipedia)

A female anopheles mosquito feeding on a human host. (Image: James Gathany, via Wikipedia)

Health officials told IRIN that hospitals and clinics in the remote and humid district in the Zambezi valley on the border with Zambia, have recorded 90% of the province's malaria cases this year: 4500 cases in the past four months, resulting in 14 fatalities.

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