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.
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.