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monday
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 Posted - 12 Dec 2008 : 01:30:20
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hello everyone,
-What was the cause of cholera in Zimbabwe?
-which part or area in Zimbabwe was the cholera first detected?
-Did the neighbouring countries got it as well? (if yes) then when?
Thank you
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MeMe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Dec 2008 : 11:10:11
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Think it started due to the lack of running water in Harare ... add to that the main water source/waste disposal being a large lake outside the capital .... what do you get? If you can't even wash your hands and the custom is a daily hand shake with friends and aquaintances then obviously it will spread at an alarming rate. Yes, neighbouring countries are flagging up that it is spreading but perhaps better to Google for the most up-to-date news on this front. Certainly Mugabe has already been recorded as saying that the outbreak is over     
http://www.msf.org.uk/cholera_grips_zimbabwe_capital_20081114.news?gclid=CNjRttjrupcCFUse3god5lfYSA
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Edited by - MeMe on 12 Dec 2008 11:16:11 |
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lurker
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 12 Dec 2008 : 20:07:05
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It’s sad to see a hero turn into a villain and this is what happens when a leader overstays in power. Sacasm or not, Mugabe is really out of touch with the reality.
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Outrage at Mugabe cholera remarks
Friday, December 12, 2008
Zimbabwe's opposition figures and foreign officials have condemned Robert Mugabe, the president, after he said his government had brought the country's cholera outbreak under control.
In a nationally broadcast speech, Mugabe said on Thursday "there is no cholera" in Zimbabwe, despite UN officials announcing that almost 800 people had died from the disease.
"I don't think that the cholera outbreak is under control as of now," Fadela Chaib, a World Health Organisation spokeswoman, said as she announced that more than 16,700 cases had now been reported.
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai who would become prime minister if a stalled power-sharing agreement with Mugabe's Zanu-PF is ever implemented, said "either Mr Mugabe is mischievous or genuinely out of touch with reality".
Nelson Chamisa, a spokesman for the MDC, said: "Instead of conveying a message of condolences, Mr Mugabe was busy politicking."
'Death and destruction'
The cholera epidemic has spread as sewage and water lines have broken down contaminating the drinking supply.
The country's crumbling health care system has struggled to cope with the thousands of cases.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a medical aid charity, said on Friday that the epidemic was likely to last for months.
"The scale and the sheer numbers of infections especially in Harare is unprecedented," the organisation said.
"MSF expects to be caring for cholera patients in Zimbabwe for some time to come."
The foreign minister of Britain, Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler, said that Mugabe was responsible for "death and destruction on a grand scale" and dismissed the 84-year-old leader's claims that the situation had been resolved.
"It's evident to anyone who hears the tales of people in Zimbabwe that cholera remains a very significant problem," David Miliband told the Associated Press news agency.
"I wish it had been curtailed or curbed, but I think that the public health situation in Zimbabwe is very, very grave indeed," he said, speaking on the sidelines of an EU summit in Belgium.
The Zimbabwean goverment has accused the Western media of distorting Mugabe's speech.
George Charamba, the president's spokesman, told the state-run newspaper The Herald that the president had spoken with "sarcasm".
Meanwhile, the central bank introduced a new 500 million dollar note, worth about $10, as Zimbabwe struggles under the world's highest inflation rate, last estimated in July to be 231 million per cent.
Source: Al Jazeera
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Dec 2008 : 23:01:33
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| Callous and criminal this man has now morphed into a huge monster heartless and impervious to his people's plight. I am so dead!I just wish him the same that is an infection from the out break then he would taste the pains , this is gross madness, irresponsible and insensitive to say the least Mugabe is a shame to Africa. |
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monday
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Posted - 15 Dec 2008 : 15:41:39
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quote:
Originally posted by kaanibaa
Callous and criminal this man has now morphed into a huge monster heartless and impervious to his people's plight. I am so dead!I just wish him the same that is an infection from the out break then he would taste the pains , this is gross madness, irresponsible and insensitive to say the least Mugabe is a shame to Africa.
Thanks guys; anyway I'm sorry but I think Momodou, Lurker and Kaanibar have missed the main point here. My posting was a question, so I think we should rather focus on that. You people have being contributing a lot to Bantaba, so I am once again appealing to the forum members to revisit my questions.
For example, most of us heard of the ebola virus but I'm sure very few knew how the ebola came about.
I appreciated your contributions.........Thanks |
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