Zimbabwe: Chaos In New Cholera Outbreak, Reports Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

A second cholera outbreak has hit Chegutu, a town 100 km west of Harare, where more than 100 people have died since the first cases appeared on November 24. MSF arrived in Chegutu, which has a population of 55,000, on December 12 after being told that day of the cholera emergency there. The scene MSF found at the town’s small government cholera treatment center (CTC) was grim.

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on January 2nd, 2009