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Cholera outbreak kills 5 more in Harare
Reuters
2006-02-13

Harare - A cholera outbreak that has hit several Zimbabwean districts has claimed five more lives in the capital Harare, taking the death toll countrywide to almost 30, the official Herald newspaper said on Monday.

Zimbabwe has suffered periodic outbreaks of cholera and other diseases in the last few years, straining a health system struggling amid a severe economic crisis many blame on President Robert Mugabe's government.

The Herald said a new cholera outbreak in Harare's Epworth township had killed five and left 20 others ill. It said health authorities had set up a treatment camp in the township.

Cholera killed three people in another Harare township last month, and state media reports indicate the disease has killed over two dozen others in the rural districts of Buhera, Chikomba, Chivhu, Gokwe and in the midlands city of Kwekwe.

Health officials were not immediately available for comment.

Analysts say the outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe's cities is particularly worrying as urban centres are grappling with broken-down sewer systems, water cuts and failure by municipal authorities to collect refuse from residential areas due to chronic shortages of fuel.

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