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Cholera kills 389 in Zimbabwe, spreads across borders: UN (AFP)

 
AFP - Cholera has killed 389 people in Zimbabwe to date and the disease is also spreading into neighbouring Botswana and South Africa, the United Nations warned Friday. (link)

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