Zimbabwe Cholera Death Toll Rises to 1,111, UN Says
2008 December 19
By Mike Cohen and Frank Jomo
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — The death toll from a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has risen to 1,111, while 20,581 people are suspected to have contracted the disease, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“Major causes for the current outbreak continue to be a lack of clean drinking water and sanitation, weak health services” and an absence of medical staff, some of whom find it too expensive to travel to work, the agency said in an e-mailed statement from Geneva today. …
