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Fri 12 Dec 2008Zimbabwe declares emergency as cholera epidemic kills 560
ZIMBABWE’S GOVERNMENT declared a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 560 people a national emergency yesterday, and pleaded for international help to fight the disease.
Admitting for the first time the country’s hospitals were no longer functioning, the government said medical practitioners needed medicines, equipment, water treatment chemicals and money to tackle the epidemic that began last August.
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