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Efforts must be intensified to control Zimbabwe cholera outbreak
30 January 2009 -- Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, one of the world's largest ever recorded, is far from being brought under control. An enhanced response is needed to urgently reverse an epidemic that has infected more than 60 000 people and killed more than 3100 since August 2008.
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