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Cholera
Oct 12 2009, John

Just as always is the case following torrential rains during the onset of the rainy season, diseases like water borne diseases like cholera and typhoid wreck havoc.

In poor slum areas and Kampala suburbs, cholera is raging with so far 28 lives lost....

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Morgan Tsvangirai, right, leader of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, hands over a cup of water containing cholera medication to a cholera patient, while visiting the Budiriro Clinic in Harare, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. The death toll from cholera...