APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe’s health officials are on high alert following reports that the capital Harare and other parts of the country have been hit by a cholera outbreak.
The Harare City Council said in a statement Wednesday that the capital had so far recorded five cases of the water-borne disease, with three of the cases having been imported from Buhera, a district more than 150 kilometres southeast of the city.
Buhera is said to have reported a cholera outbreak last week.
The other two cases were contracted from locally, according to the city council.
Harare is prone to regular cholera outbreaks since the city council is struggling to provide residents with clean drinking water.
This has forced most residents to drink water from unprotected well, thereby exposing themselves to diseases such as cholera.
The latest cases bring the spectre of the country’s worst ever cholera outbreak that claimed over 4,000 lives and affected more than 100,000 individuals.
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