Radio Australia
Health Officials
in South Africa have confirmed more than 40 new cholera infections
in one of the nation's worst outbreaks of the disease.
More than
three-and-a-half thousand people have now become infected, as
Africa correspondent Sally Sara reports
The outbreak
in the Kwa Zulu-Natal province has already claimed 30 lives. South
African health officials are hopeful the number of infections
will decline. But the health Department concedes it's too early
to tell. Forty-seven new cases of cholera have been reported since
Saturday. The outbreak began in a series of rivers and dams north-east
of Durban two months ago. But it has now spread to other districts
south of the provincial capital. Water tanks have been installed
in several villages, and residents are being urged not to drink
from local waterways. Sally Sara, Johannesburg.
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