Zimbabwe struggles with deadly cholera outbreak affecting thousands

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Zimbabwe is battling a cholera outbreak - that is thought to have killed more than 100 people and infected over 5,000 in more than 40 districts since February.

with a total of 5,030 suspected cases and 108 suspected cholera deaths since FEB in more than 41 districts including Harare.

The government has restricted public gatherings

to stop the spread of the disease.

But the numbers are rising, and authorities fear a repeat of an epidemic in 2008, that killed thousands of people.

Al Jazeera's Fahmida Miller reports.

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