Cholera toll, officially 425, may be higher
Health authorities say 425 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and they are concerned that it will worsen with the onset of the rainy season.
More than 11,000 people have been sickened since August, the official Sunday Mail newspaper reported. The number of cases has shot up in the last two weeks.
The Zimbabwe Assn. of Doctors for Human Rights has accused the government of trying to downplay the severity of the outbreak, which is blamed on collapsing sewage and water facilities and uncollected garbage.
The doctors group says many people are dying unseen and uncounted at home. It says that collapsing hospital and clinic facilities are also to blame for the high death rate.
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