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Health Crisis - Focus on Cholera and Anthrax - Index of articles
Zimbabwe
Cholera Outbreak Fact Sheet & Map #11, FY 2009
USAID / US. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
March 06, 2009
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Key developments
Since the cholera
outbreak began in August 2008, the disease has spread to all of
Zimbabwe's 10 provinces and 56 of Zimbabwe's 62 districts.
As of March 5, nearly 88,000 reported cases of cholera had caused
nearly 4,000 deaths, according to the U.N. World Health Organization
(WHO). If current daily cholera rates continue, the total caseload
could exceed WHO's assessment of the outbreak's likeliest
overall scope, currently estimated at 92,000 cases, in the coming
weeks.
On March 5,
WHO reported an overall case fatality rate (CFR) of 4.5 percent.
Since the CFR peaked at 5.7 percent on January 21, WHO has recorded
a continuing decline in the CFR. WHO attributes the decline to improved
case management and to social mobilization programs emphasizing
early treatment, funded in part by USAID/OFDA.
Following a
visit to Zimbabwe from February 21 to 25, U.N. Assistant Secretary
General for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg and other senior
U.N. officials reported that Zimbabwe's humanitarian situation
remained grave. The delegation noted the importance of further expanding
cholera treatment to rural areas and intensifying social mobilization
and hygiene promotion programs.
On March 5,
the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) prime minister noted in an address
to health officials and representatives of international aid donors
that the number of cholera cases and deaths recorded to date potentially
underestimates the actual scope of the outbreak.
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