The four horsemen are riding in Zimbabwe.
Posted on 06/27/2005 7:39:26 PM PDT by Clive
Cholera breaks out in Zimbabwe Tue 28 June 2005
HARARE -- Zimbabwe has sent an SOS to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for help to fight a cholera outbreak ravaging its eastern Nyanga district, a senior government official said.
More than 210 cases of cholera have been reported with 15 deaths recorded in the past few months in Gaerezi, Nyamaropa, Nyakomba and Katerere areas of Nyanga district, which lies along Zimbabwe's border with Mozambique.
Deputy Health Minister Edwin Muguti told ZimOnline his ministry had battled unsuccessfully to control the disease which he said was spreading from Mozambique. Harare had now appealed for help from the WHO to control the disease at the source in Mozambique, he said.
He said: "The disease is not contained yet and we are seeking assistance from WHO to help in controlling the outbreak from its source ... we will not control it until it is controlled at its source."
A waterborne disease, cholera spreads easily under unhygienic conditions where there is no clean water or food.
Zimbabwe has in the past been able to contain several outbreaks of the disease along its borders with Mozambique and Zambia. But a shortage of drugs and fuel for health personnel to regularly travel to infected areas to monitor disease control efforts have hampered the country's capacity to deal with the latest outbreak.
An acute food shortage gripping the country after poor harvests last farming season has only helped exacerbate the situation with standards of hygiene compromised as people eat whatever is available.
Some health officials from Nyanga said they suspected locals to have contracted cholera from fish smuggled into Nyanga town and surrounding areas by villagers from across the border in Mozambique.
The increased movement of people because of ongoing displacements caused by mass evictions of homeless families from urban areas by the government might see the disease easily spreading beyond Nyanga. - ZimOnline
Maybe Ward Churchill could accuse the United States of giving cholera-infected blankets to the Zimbabweans.
I doubt that this is just a coincidence. It's got Mugabe's name written all over it.
More consequences of Bobby Mugabe's life.
I'm sure Mugabe has everything under control.
Bad to worse.
The four horsemen are riding in Zimbabwe.
Wow that country is going to wiped clean by God. When is Mugabe going to get the almighty ZOT?
Shades of North Korea.
Cholera is easily prevented - a little bleach in the water supply - and presents a truly miserable death. If this one spreads it's because it was meant to.
Ping - are you interested in this?
Future headline for Connecticut.
Sounds like a shitty situation.
But it's okay, because an African is in charge now, and the bad old Europeans are gone.
It's always something.
That's what I think too.
Is this God's hand you're talking about?
Is he preparing his country for the Chinese....now getting rid of the black folks?
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