19 contract cholera in areas without clean water

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Plagues, Pestilences and Diseases

19 contract cholera in areas without clean water*

Associated Press in Johannesburg
Saturday February 3, 2007
The Guardian

Nineteen people have contracted cholera in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare,
in the city's first outbreak in a year, state radio reported yesterday.
They were said to be from the poor eastern areas of Mabvuku and Tafara,
where residents had been without clean running water and were using
unsafe wells.

Some were believed to have been living in a tent settlement that has
housed 350 families since their homes were destroyed in a 2005 slum
clearance programme. The ill were taken to an infectious diseases
hospital, and officials were handing out water purification tablets, the
reports said.