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- Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare over a cholera outbreak. The outbreak has so far killed dozens of people with more than 7,000 suspected cases. The city authorities say the outbreak, spreading throughout the city, has invoked memories of a deadly outbreak in 2008, in which thousands died.
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Jan 26, 2024 · Zimbabwe: Cholera Outbreak Zimbabwe has been grappling with a cholera outbreak since February 2023, with the number of cases increasing across the country. As of 5 November 2023, suspected and confirmed cases have been reported in all 10 provinces of the country and in 41 out of 62 districts, with the most alarming spikes in the south-eastern ...
Nov 17, 2023 · 17 November 2023. By Basillioh Rukanga,BBC News. AFP. Lack of access to clean water has been blamed for the cholera spread. Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare over...
Nov 20, 2023 · A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is suspected of killing more than 150 people and infecting more than 8,000. The virulent bacterial disease is striking fear in many in the southern African country who live in impoverished and neglected areas where sanitation conditions are poor and local government failures have left them with no access to clean ...
Aug 12, 2020 · From September 4, 2018, to March 12, 2019, Zimbabwe experienced a large cholera outbreak, with 10,730 suspected cases of cholera and 69 deaths (Fig. S1 in the Supplementary Appendix,...
- Tapfumanei Mashe, Daryl Domman, Andrew Tarupiwa, Portia Manangazira, Isaac Phiri, Kudzai Masunda, Pr...
- 2020
The 2008–2009 cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe resulted in 98,585 reported cases and 4,287 reported deaths, making it the largest and deadliest in the history of Zimbabwe. 1 The initial outbreak was notable for its high cumulative case fatality rate (4.3%) that persisted over a protracted duration (10 months).
- Charles Cuneo, Richard Sollom, Chris Beyrer
- Health Hum Rights. 2017 Dec; 19(2): 249-264.
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Jan 30, 2023 · Results. A cumulative total of 10 730 suspected, 371 laboratory-confirmed cholera cases and 68 deaths were reported in Zimbabwe through the situation analysis report (sitrep). The attack rate during the outbreak was 174.6 per 100 000 with a case fatality rate of 0.63%.
UNICEF2024. Highlights. As of 11 April 2024, a total of 31,705 cholera cases, and 683 deaths with. a cumulative case fatality rate (CFR) of 2.2 per cent, have been reported. from 63 districts across the 10 provinces. Of the cumulative cholera cases, approximately 31 per cent are children.
