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Cholera kills 14 in Bundibugyo

[Mauritania] Malnourished children in the El Mina slum on Nouakchott's outskirts. [Date picture taken: 07/16/2006] Nicholas Reader/IRIN
850 million people worldwide, many of them children, experience malnutrition
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    Humanitarian sources confirmed to IRIN on Friday that 14 people have died following a fresh cholera outbreak in displaced people’s camps in Bundibugyo, western Uganda. A source from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said 130 cases had so far been reported, but the situation was now improving since the arrival of an MSF team in the area on Monday. He said no deaths had been reported over the past two days.

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