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Cholera Is Raging, Whatever Mugabe Says

Zimbabwe nears total collapse as health sector shuts down

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 12, 2008 6:51 AM CST

(Newser) – Robert Mugabe says that the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has ended, but health experts say that 60,000 people could succumb to the disease, and half of the country's population is at risk. Zimbabwe's socioeconomic collapse has frighteningly accelerated, writes Celia Dugger in Harare, and... Read full story »

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