Zimbabwe cholera cases shoot up alarmingly

Seven years after an estimated 4000 people died in a cholera outbreak, Zimbabwe is once again in danger of becoming one of the epicentres of a fresh regional epidemic, as the numbers of people who have contracted the illness have doubled since last week.

As of yesterday, the epidemic had laid low 12 people, from six recorded cases last Thursday, according to official statistics.

This comes as a cholera outbreak in parts of neighbouring Mozambique that have been hit by floods have killed over 41 people, raising the spectre of another mega regional health disaster from an illness that is ordinarily preventable.

Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa, is now scheduled to meet his Mozambican counterpart to discuss the outbreak that is ravaging the two countries' common border areas.