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Sudden increase in cholera cases

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    WHO has been informed by health officials in several countries of eastern and southern Africa of an increase in cholera cases. “The situation in eastern Africa is similar to that at the end of 1997 when almost all countries in the Horn of Africa were affected by severe cholera outbreaks or threatened by them,” WHO said in a statement released today. It said sudden increases in cases and deaths were now being reported in the same countries as well as some Southern African ones. Countries recently reporting new or increased cholera activity are: Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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