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Tests show no cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
Aug 27, 2009, 6:52 GMT
Harare - Zimbabwe's health ministry said Thursday that samples taken from 12 suspected cholera patients had proved negative, ending fears that a new cholera outbreak had erupted.
The state-run daily Herald newspaper quoted Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Gerald Gwinji as saying that initial reports from the south-east Chipinge district early this week were treated as cholera cases while laboratory tests were being conducted.
Zimbabwe has just emerged from a severe cholera epidemic, the worst in Africa for decades, which infected nearly 100,000 and killed 4,300.
Results on Tuesday showed all samples negative for cholera, Gwinji said.
Medical aid agencies have warned that the conditions for a rapid spread of the cholera bacteria remain in Zimbabwe, given the country's decrepit water and sewage disposal infrastructures in crowded urban areas.
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