Morning Briefing

"A typhoid outbreak that began in Harare last year is steadily spreading across Zimbabwe with more than 3,000 cases reported although only one death due to the disease has been reported so far, health officials have said," ZimOnline reports (Marimudza, 2/29). "We have reported 203 new typhoid cases this week only ... So we actually have an outbreak that is raging," Ministry of Health Epidemiology and Disease Control Director Portia Manangazira told VOA News, according to the news service (Gonda/Chifera, 2/28). Speaking to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Welfare on Tuesday, Manangazira "said the ministry did not have adequate supply of drugs for patients," NewsDay notes (Chidavaenzi, 2/29).