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Uganda: Cholera Cleaning Up Mess Left By El Nino Rains
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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