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Cholera Epidemic Hits Western, Central Africa
"Western and central Africa are facing one of the biggest cholera epidemics in their history, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said last month, in reporting that more than 85,000 cases of cholera have been registered since the beginning of the year, with nearly 2,500 deaths," according to Le Monde/Guardian. The newspaper writes, "UNICEF has identified three main cholera epidemic outbreaks in the Lake Chad basin, the West Congo basin and Lake Tanganyika," and "[f]ive countries -- Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) and Chad -- account for 90 percent of the reported cases and fatalities."
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