Cholera In Tanzania

Sadick Thenest remembers how his 8-year-old daughter had a narrow brush with death two years ago, when she contracted cholera after drinking contaminated water.

A major cholera outbreak in Tanzania has now infected nearly 10,000 people and killed 150, the World Health Organization said today, voicing concern that predicted flooding risked spreading the disease internationally.

About 3,000 refugees fleeing political turmoil in Burundi have been infected in a cholera epidemic in neighbouring Tanzania, the United Nations said on Friday, stoking fears of a growing humanitarian crisis in Africa's Great Lakes.

Sadick Thenest remembers how his 8-year-old daughter had a narrow brush with death two years ago, when she contracted cholera after drinking contaminated water.

A major cholera outbreak in Tanzania has now infected nearly 10,000 people and killed 150, the World Health Organization said today, voicing concern that predicted flooding risked spreading the disease internationally.

About 3,000 refugees fleeing political turmoil in Burundi have been infected in a cholera epidemic in neighbouring Tanzania, the United Nations said on Friday, stoking fears of a growing humanitarian crisis in Africa's Great Lakes.