Cyclone-hit Mozambique: cases of cholera, malaria, typhoid

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Cyclone-hit Mozambique: cases of cholera, malaria, typhoid
Aid agencies raise alert over sanitation and lack of safe drinking water as risk of disease outbreaks grows.
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Humanitarian agencies have raised alerts over hygiene and safe drinking water needs eight days after Cyclone Idai lashed central Mozambique, with cholera cases reported in the devastated port city of Beira.

The warnings on Saturday came as the Mozambican government raised the death toll to at least 417, with an unspecified number of people missing.

The number of dead was put at 259 in neighbouring Zimbabwe, which Idai tore through after Mozambique before moving to Malawi, which recorded 56 deaths...

 

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Cholera cases rise to 139 after cyclone in Mozambique
ANI | Others Last Updated at March 30, 2019 20:21 IST

In the wake of a devastating cyclone and flooding, cholera cases in Mozambique have shot up to 139, health officials said on Friday (local time).

Aid agencies rushed to the region to control the spread of disease among thousands of other survivors of the natural disaster, Al Jazeera reported.

Many badly affected areas in Mozambique and the neighbouring countries are still inaccessible by road, complicating relief efforts and exacerbating the threat of infection...