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New cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe
UPI ^ | Oct. 21, 2009

Posted on 10/21/2009 9:55:46 PM PDT by george76

Cholera has reappeared in Zimbabwe, where more than 4,300 people died of the disease in a recent epidemic, the United Nations Children's Fund reports.

UNICEF said Tuesday there have been at least five deaths in the current outbreak...

"The fundamentals of the last epidemic are still there. Water is only sporadically available, and sewerage reticulation and refuse collection are only partially working,"

"It's not the catastrophe that it was last year but it's still a big epidemic of an easily preventable disease that should never have been allowed to happen,"

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cholera; mugabe; un; unitednations; zimbabwe

1 posted on 10/21/2009 9:55:46 PM PDT by george76
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Dr. Evil Mugabe says you can get treatment for cholera! It is easy! He will price the hydration at $1000, no wait, A TRILLION dollars per liter to save you!


2 posted on 10/21/2009 10:01:30 PM PDT by GnuHere
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who cares about some stinking cholera, or for that matter, cancer,strokes,gang murders,starvation,or other silly little afflictions.....WE GOTS THE SWINE FLU AND ITS GOING TO KILL ALL OF US!


3 posted on 10/21/2009 10:07:41 PM PDT by cherry
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To: george76

I want to beat out Louie Farrakhan on this one and be the first to blame it all on the white man.


4 posted on 10/21/2009 10:17:03 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: george76

Barack Obama’s father’s dream at work.

Mugabe uses ideals espoused by Barack Obama Sr. to run Zimbabwe.


5 posted on 10/21/2009 10:29:35 PM PDT by Nahanni
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-Pity About Africa...--

-South Africa - The sellout of a nation--

-Cry, the Beloved Country--

-Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power--

-A Capsule History of Southern Africa--

-Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie--

-First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence--

-Parallels between Apartheid SA and USA--

-Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight--
 


6 posted on 10/22/2009 1:46:04 AM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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